Re: gplot.txt

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2016, at 15:04, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

>> On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:02, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 3/1/16
>> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> Things can get weird when tinkering with the build system, and jwe has been
>> doing a lot recently to improve it.  One way to test things cleanly is to
>> get rid of all the cruft in your source tree and try a fresh build.
>> 
>> I do
>> 
>> make maintainer-clean
>> hg stat -u -i > unknown.list
>> #look through unknown.list and delete things you don't need like leftover
>> .o object files.
>> bootstrap
>> configure
>> make
>> 
>> However, a quicker test is to update your source repository and then clone
>> it to a new directory.  That will get you only the files under version
>> control, and skip all the cruft.
>> 
>> cd octave-src
>> hg pull
>> hg update
>> cd ..
>> hg clone octave-src octave-tmp
>> cd octave-tmp
>> bootstrap
>> configure
>> make
>> 
>> --Rik
> 
> Good idea. I tried the first approach, but the problems persist. I'll try a 
> fresh archive next (just to be sure)
> 
> Ben

Oops, I spoke too soon. The gui runs for me now! :-)

Ben