Re: octave forge

[Robert Leach]

see inline comments...

> > make[3]: Entering directory
> > `/home/local/octave-forge-2004.02.12/main/comm/doc'
> > Making texinfo comms.texi
> > Making info comms.info
> > comms.texi:12375: @item not meaningful inside address@hidden' block.
> > comms.texi:12378: @item not meaningful inside address@hidden' block.
> <snip>
>
> This is weird. I can think of a few possibilities, all of which are a
> result of a bad install
>
> 1) Which version of makeinfo do you have install

plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.6

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>

> 2) Which version of mktexi? Is it corruptted? Check against the CVS

plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>mktexi --version
mktexi: Command not found.
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>

No idea...

> 3) The errors above are all at the end of the file comms.texi where the
>    automatic building of the function referencing is taking place. 
> This is
>    generated using the file INDEX and the texinfo help in all of the
>    functions. If any of the functions in the file INDEX, has an error 
> in
>    their texinfo help, then the above might result. Are all of the 
> files
>    *.m and *.cc the same as in the CVS?

I'm not sure where you want me to look.  Are you referring to a 
directory in the octave-forge directory?  I couldn't find a CVS 
directory anywhere:

plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>ls
AUTHORS          INDEX            Makeconf.in      autogen.sh*      
configure.base   interact_test.m
COPYING          INSTALL          Makefile         autom4te.cache/  
cvs-tree*        main/
COPYING.BSD      INSTALL.MacOSX   README           batch_test.m     
cvsdir.sh*       nonfree/
COPYING.GPL      INSTALL.WINDOWS  RELEASE-NOTES    config.log       
doc/             octinst.sh*
ChangeLog        Makeconf         TODO             config.status*   
extra/           octinst.sh.in*
FIXES/           Makeconf.base    admin/           configure*       
install-sh*      release.sh
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>ls */CVS
ls: No match.
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>ls */*/CVS
ls: No match.
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>ls */*/*/CVS
ls: No match.
plague: /usr/local/octave-forge>ls */*/*/*/CVS
ls: No match.

> I don't believe this is a problem in the comms package itself, as I 
> can not
> regenerate this problem...
>
> Regards
> David
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