From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu May 16 14:47:54 2002
Subject: RE: rebuilding still
From: "Lippert, Ross A." <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com>
To: "'John W. Eaton'" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:01:08 -0400



Hmmm I think you are right, now that I look more at munge-texi.
I'm not sure why it is breaking then.  I'll have to do some more work.

-r

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Eaton [mailto:jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:14 PM
To: Lippert, Ross A.
Cc: octave-maintainers mailing list
Subject: RE: rebuilding still


On 16-May-2002, Lippert, Ross A. <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com> wrote:

| 
| OK, I think I found the problem.  It isn't a compiler problem, it is a
| Makefile
| problem.
| 
| In the Makefile for doc/interpreter the rule for going from txi to texi
has
| an
| extra -d in it.
| 
| %.texi : %.txi
|          at echo making $@ from $<
|          at  dot /munge-texi \
|           -d $(TOPDIR)/src/DOCSTRINGS \
| !bad!     -d $(TOPDIR)/scripts/DOCSTRINGS < $< > $ at  dot t
|          at mv $@.t $@

But if you remove that part of the command, doesn't that omit all the
M-file doc strings from the manual?

jwe