Installation problem, 2.1.34

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Aug-2001, Eric Evans <address@hidden> wrote:

| I gave up on trying to install Octave 2.0.16 on our system, since it won't 
| work with gcc 3.0.  So I tried version 2.1.34 instead, but unfortunately 
| the make crashes when it gets to "makeinfo: command not found".  We do not 
| have makeinfo.  I don't know what it is and I have not been able to find 
| any mention of it in my sysadmin books.  Is it something that is essential 
| to the Octave installation, or is there some way to bypass the makeinfo 
| stuff and still get Octave to work OK?  We are working with gcc 3.0 and GNU 
| make 3.79.1 in a Solaris 8 environment.  Thanks a lot....

Makeinfo is part of the GNU Texinfo package.  You can get it from
ftp.gnu.org or one of its mirrors.

jwe



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