While I was trying to build the package "octave" by doing make octave inside mxe-octave, I was shown the following error:
Making install in liboctave
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/.build/doc/liboctave'
TEXINPUTS="/home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/doc/liboctave/..:$TEXINPUTS" \
MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo -I /home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/doc/liboctave' \
texi2dvi --build-dir=t2d_cache /home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi
egrep: Invalid range end
/home/ani/mxe-octave/usr/bin/texi2dvi: cannot read .//home/ani/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.5/doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi, skipping.
make[5]: *** [liboctave.dvi] Error 1
I have texlive-scheme-medium installed on my system.
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