From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 10 09:00:39 2006 Subject: Re: it doesn't work... From: David Bateman To: michaelschmid1 at bluewin dot ch Cc: help at octave dot org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:56:13 +0100 michaelschmid1 at bluewin dot ch wrote: > David Bateman wrote: > > > michaelschmid1 at bluewin dot ch wrote: > > > >> so, now I tried to generate the pdf - output > >> but like the texi2pdf, I can not found a preface.texi... > >> there is only a preface.txi ... should this work .. or not? > >> thanks for help... > >> > > Try > > > > cd doc/ > > make > > > > D. > > > > thanks for help, but it doesn't work > > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > > that's the answer.. > Ah, I'd made the assumption that you had already configured Octave. As you are getting it from the CVS you need to run autogen.sh first and then configure with the prefix where you would install octave if you did install it. Then you can build the docs. Try ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave-cvs cd doc make D. -- David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com Motorola Labs - Paris +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------