Re: MSVC/Win32: building the documentation

[Michael Goffioul]

John W. Eaton a écrit :
> OK, this problem was bugging me, and I found a few minutes.  Does the
> following patch help?
>   

Yes it does. Thanks.

However, I have something to ask. I tried to compile octave with MSVC 
from the cygwin
shell instead of MSYS (packages are more up-to-date and easier to 
install). Everything went
almost fine except for 2 things, maybe you can help.

1) the current gperf version provided by cygwin is 2.7.x. This version 
produces an invalid
header (the result type of octave_kw_hash::in_word_set is empty). Is it 
possible to use this
version, or do I really need an more recent version (which is 
unfortunately not available
by default)

2) building the doc fails at various points:
   - when generating the figures with run-octave, it looks like the 
process is terminated
     before the actual file has been written by gnuplot, resulting in 
an empty file; I solved
     that by adding a "sleep(1)" command after the regular command of 
run-octave in
     doc/interpreter/Makefile.in
   - texi2dvi gives an error I can't decode:

This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
file:line:error style messages enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting.

     If I manually set TEX=tex before calling texi2dvi, it works fine. 
Do you have any
     idea about what's going on?

Michael.