Re: 2 problems with 3.3.92

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Rik  wrote:
>>
>> John,
>> two problems are still there
>>
>> 1) building in a separate dir, documentation fails as
>>    contributors.texi is expected in the build dir, but it is only
>> available in the src tree.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
>> make[3]: Entering directory
>> `/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/build/doc/interpreter'
>> rm -f AUTHORS
>> /bin/sh 
>> /pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/build-aux/missing
>> --run makeinfo -D AUTHORSONLY \
>>          --no-validate --no-headers --no-split --output AUTHORS preface.texi
>> preface.texi:82: @include `contributors.texi': No such file or directory.
>> makeinfo: Removing output file `AUTHORS' due to errors; use --force to 
>> preserve.
>> make[3]: [../../AUTHORS] Error 1 (ignored)
>> mv AUTHORS ../../AUTHORS
>> mv: cannot stat `AUTHORS': No such file or directory
>> make[3]: *** [../../AUTHORS] Error 1
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
> There is something wrong here.  If you are building from a tarball it
> contains all of the documentation pre-built.  We specifically do this
> because some distributions versions of Texinfo are weak.  At least on a
> Debian system, building in a separate directory from the source works fine.

on cygwin with our build system cygport
octave doc is rebuilt, while all the rest no

>
> I would start by untarring the 3.3.92 tarball and verifying that the
> AUTHORS file is there and that the timestamp is newer than
> contributors.texi in doc/interpreter.  This is the case for me.
>
same

> If this checks out then there may be an issue with your version of GNU Make
> and VPATH builds.  For example, when I try a test make of AUTHORS in my
> build directory I get
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> rik:~/downloads/build: make -n AUTHORS
> make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rik/downloads/build/doc/interpreter'
> make[1]: `../../../octave-3.3.92/doc/interpreter/../../AUTHORS' is up to date.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rik/downloads/build/doc/interpreter'
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Note that the file it checks for the timestamp is not './AUTHORS' in the
> build directory, but a huge relative path name to the source directory.
>
not here

$ make -n AUTHORS
make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
make[1]: Entering directory
`/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/build/doc/interpreter'
make[1]: `../../AUTHORS' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/build/doc/interpreter'

Please note that cygwin build system runs autoreconf on source tree
before the configure step in the build tree.

> What does your make log show for the two DOCSTRINGS files in src/ and
> scripts/?  If it is mistakenly re-building these then this will trigger a
> re-build of all the .texi files which would require AUTHORS to be re-built.
>

I guess the first triggers the rebuild

if [ "x/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/src" !=
"x." ] && [ -f 
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/src/DOCSTRINGS
] && [ ! -f DOCSTRINGS ]; then \
                cp
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/src/DOCSTRINGS
DOCSTRINGS; \
                touch -r
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/src/DOCSTRINGS
DOCSTRINGS; \
        fi
creating .DOCSTRINGS from .cc source files
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/move-if-change
.DOCSTRINGS DOCSTRINGS
touch .DOCSTRINGS



if [ "x/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/scripts"
!= "x." ] && [ -f
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/scripts/DOCSTRINGS
] && [ ! -f DOCSTRINGS ]; then \
                cp
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/scripts/DOCSTRINGS
DOCSTRINGS; \
                touch -r
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/scripts/DOCSTRINGS
DOCSTRINGS; \
        fi
mv testfun/PKG_ADD-t testfun/PKG_ADD
mv time/PKG_ADD-t time/PKG_ADD
creating .DOCSTRINGS from .m script files
mv statistics/distributions/PKG_ADD-t statistics/distributions/PKG_ADD
mv plot/PKG_ADD-t plot/PKG_ADD
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.92-1/src/octave-3.3.92/move-if-change
.DOCSTRINGS DOCSTRINGS
DOCSTRINGS is unchanged
touch .DOCSTRINGS


>>
>> 3) octave.info is updated/modified in the src tree
> This is probably the same error in another form.  The documentation should
> not require rebuilding.

likely as it is the only rebuilt. all the rest is unchanged

>
> --Rik
>

Marco