OcataveFAQ.texi build error

[IainIsm]

[Cross-posted from:
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/OctaveFAQ-build-error-tp4644637.html
following Jordi's guidance]

I appear to be having the same issue as was reported here:
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/make-error-octave-3-4-0-building-from-source-td3469417.html

(When trying to build code I checked out today via Mercurial - see tags
below) 

I see:

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/iain/Downloads/octave/doc/faq'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
        am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
        rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
        if (/bin/bash /home/iain/Downloads/octave/build-aux/missing --run 
makeinfo
--version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
          for f in OctaveFAQ.info OctaveFAQ.info-[0-9] OctaveFAQ.info-[0-9][0-9]
OctaveFAQ.i[0-9] OctaveFAQ.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
            if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
          done; \
        else :; fi && \
        cd "$am__cwd"; \
        if /bin/bash /home/iain/Downloads/octave/build-aux/missing --run 
makeinfo  
-I . \
         -o OctaveFAQ.info OctaveFAQ.texi; \
        then \
          rc=0; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; \
        else \
          rc=$?; \
          CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
          $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./OctaveFAQ.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
        fi; \
        rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
TEXINPUTS="./..:$TEXINPUTS" \
        MAKEINFO='/bin/bash /home/iain/Downloads/octave/build-aux/missing --run
makeinfo   -I .' \
        texi2dvi --build-dir=t2d_cache  --clean OctaveFAQ.texi 
make[3]: *** [OctaveFAQ.dvi] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/iain/Downloads/octave/doc/faq'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/iain/Downloads/octave/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/iain/Downloads/octave'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Whether or not I use "LANG=C make" or just plain "make" (as is suggested in
the old thread). 

My environment is inside a VM: 

address@hidden:~$ uname -r 
3.2.0-31-generic 
address@hidden:~$ lsb_release -a 
No LSB modules are available. 
Distributor ID: Ubuntu 
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 
Release:        12.04 
Codename:       precise 
address@hidden:~$ 

First two lines output of hg --debug tags:
tip                           
15444:46dd555edd337dad278192373aacbd37a6722ce8
release-3-6-3                 
15283:a95432e7309ca6fc776c02939264bb6d443f3525

Any ideas please as to where I should start looking to get this working?

Thanks, 

Iain





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