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Re: Documentation patch


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: Documentation patch
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:43:37 +0200
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According to Federico Zenith <address@hidden> (on 06/03/04):
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> Hi,
> I mailed before about having corrections for the Octave manual. it turned out 
> that some functions needed their help entry fixed too (Thanks to David 
> Bateman for explaining me how it works).
> 
> I have now made a patch for octave based on version 2.1.57, but I would like 
> to test it before handing in (it should be to the sources mailing list, 
> right? Or to the dev one?).
> 
> Now, since Octave comes in its source package already with octave.dvi 
> compiled 
> and ready, I am wondering what exactly I have to do to recompile it, so I can 
> check I did not break too many things ;-)

Have you tried "./configure; make" in the top-level of the octave sources?

> I guess it has something to do with the Makefile in the octave-2.1.57/doc 
> folder... but have never worked with .texi files before. All modifications 
> were carried out on .txi files and the DOCSTRINGS in src/ and scripts/.

Just typing make here won't help due to the configuration dependencies
and that some of the support functions needed to convert *.txi files
to *.texi files, etc aren't in this directory/.


> Please answer quickly if you know, as I am leaving tomorrow and will be away 
> for ten days. Since this is a relatively quick check, I'd like to hand in the 
> patch by this evening (CET).
> 
> Cheers,
> - -Federico
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