Re: help building octave 3.4.3

[Andy Buckle]

On 30 December 2011 19:15, yashar mehmani <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have recently been able to configure octave (with very little warnings at
> the end) and then I compiled it using "make" and once it got done it had the
> following errors and I was wondering what they were and what they meant and
> what I should do or shouldn't do to NOT have any problems in the future
> working with my octave:
>
> sh: makeinfo: not found
> error: makeinfo failed with exit status 127!
> error: called from:
> error:   /home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m
> at line 68, column 3
>
> make[3]: *** [doc-cache] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc/interpreter'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> However if I type in "./run-octave" it works, but I obviously haven't
> checked all the features.
>
> The compilation took about 2hrs or 1:30hrs, if there is only ONE or FEW
> things that I should fix/download/install etc. to get rid of this can I
> avoid recompiling the whole thing or is that a no go?

I think you need to disable docs at the configure stage, or install
stuff to enable doc building. I can't recall exactly what packages are
required for the docs. I have a hunch that it was installing "texlive"
on openSuSE that got the dependencies fixed.

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