Re: package database-2.4.0 released

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 03/18/2016 02:38 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:43:27PM +0000, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
>> On 03/17/2016 02:45 PM, Olaf Till wrote:
>>> A new release of the database package, version 2.4.0, is available.
>>>
>>> For new features, see:
>>>
>>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/database/NEWS.html
>>>
>>> Thanks Carnë for checking the material and putting it online.
>>>
>>> Olaf
>>
>> I'm having trouble building this in FreeBSD.  I get this error:
>>
>>
>> ./munge-texi.pl MFDOCSTRINGS pq_close.cc.docstrings
>> pq_exec.cc.docstrings pq_update_types.cc.docstrings pq_lo.cc.docstrings
>> pq_conninfo.cc.docstrings var2bytea.cc.docstrings
>> bytea2var.cc.docstrings < ../doc/database.txi > ../doc/database.texi
>> Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at ./munge-texi.pl
>> line 43, <DOCFH> line 200.
>> invalid doc file format
>> Makefile:81: recipe for target '../doc/database.texi' failed
> 
> In the release, the docs are already built, and in normal installation
> the above building of documents should not take place at all. How did
> you acquire and build the package?
> 
> Olaf
> 

I acquired the package from sourceforge.  I was building via an update
of the FreeBSD port https://www.freshports.org/math/octave-forge-database/

Based upon your reply, I edited Makefile.in as follows, which fixed the
problem.  Is this legitimate?

--- Makefile.in.orig    2016-03-18 14:46:25 UTC
+++ Makefile.in
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ MFILES := $(wildcard *.m) $(wildcard ../

 .INTERMEDIATE: MFDOCSTRINGS $(DSFILES)

-all: doc $(octs)
+all: $(octs)

 release: doc html

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