From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jul  5 09:39:53 2005
Subject: enhancement for the Makefile
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Toralf =?iso-8859-15?q?F=F6rster?= <toralf dot foerster at gmx dot de>
Cc: bugs at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:37:18 -0400

On 26-Jun-2005, Toralf Förster wrote:

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| Building octave 2.1.69 on my (linux) system I found warnings about missing 
| tex2pdf and tex2html in my log. In the case where a system lacks both of 
| these commands the previously step to made all *.texi files can be skipped., 
| isn't it ?

Why should building the documentation be skipped?  Wouldn't it be
better to install the necessary tools to properly complete the build?

jwe



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