Re: Installation problems on Linux

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chaman Singh Verma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Intel Core 2 Duo machine with Ubuntu 64 bit OS installed.  Although
> the compiling Octave went quite
> far successfully, but near the end I get the following
> messages:
>
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1/src'
> make -C ../../scripts DOCSTRINGS
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1/scripts'
> make[4]: `DOCSTRINGS' is up to date.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1/scripts'
> making install.texi from install.txi
> install.texi is unchanged
> rm -f INSTALL
> ../../missing makeinfo -D INSTALLONLY \
>       --no-validate --no-headers --no-split --output INSTALL \
>       -I.. -I. -I./.. install.texi
> make[3]: ../../missing: Command not found
> make[3]: [../../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 127 (ignored)
> mv INSTALL ../../INSTALL.OCTAVE
> mv: cannot stat `INSTALL': No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [../../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1/doc/interpreter'
> make[2]: *** [../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1/doc'
> make[1]: *** [INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/csv610/Desktop/octave-3.0.1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> What could be the solution ?

You're missing "makeinfo". This should be part of the texinfo package.

Michael.