Re: building docs

[Rik]

On 12/01/2013 06:13 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:36:28 -0600
> From: Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [cygwin] Compile success, except for doc
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> On 12/01/2013 03:12 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> > On 12/01/2013 03:02 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> >> On 12/01/2013 02:47 AM, CdeMills wrote:
>>>> >>> No issue here (Fedora 19, x86-64 machine); the plot result is a sine
>>>> >>> with
>>>> >>> blue line on a white background.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Regards
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Pascal
>>> >>
>>> >> OK, are any of you building outside of the octave/. root directory?
>> >
>> > That's not it... I think I found the issue. Sorry,
>> >
>> > Dan
> Could I convince anyone to change Makefile entries of this sort:
>
> plot.eps: plotimages.m
>       $(top_builddir)/run-octave -f -q -H -p $(srcdir) --eval "plotimages 
> ('plot', 'eps');"
>
> to the following?
>
> plot.eps: plotimages.m
>       $(top_builddir)/run-octave --no-gui --no-gui-libs -f -q -H -p $(srcdir) 
> --eval "plotimages ('plot', 'eps');"
>
> Please? :-)
>
> Dan
12/1/13

Dan,

I think the best fix is to make sure that Octave calls the CLI version
whenever a non-interactive invocation of octave is used (--eval without
persist or the name of an m-file to run in batch mode).

--Rik