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Re: Documentation patch
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David Bateman |
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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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