Re: docs not building

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/07/2015 09:23 PM, Rik wrote:
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> > Re: Eliminating more recursive make invocations
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> > On 07/07/2015 11:51 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > On 07/07/2015 04:37 PM, Michael Godfrey wrote:
> > > > On 07/07/2015 05:34 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > > > I checked in a series of changes that eliminates calling make
> > > > > recursively for the doc, etc/icons, and test directory trees.
> > > > >
> > > > > You may need to clean up your build tree and run the bootstrap script
> > > > > followed by configure to eliminate now obsolete Makefiles.
> > > > >
> > > > > In doing this I once again enabled building the documentation and
> > > > > images for the documentation in parallel.  It seems to work for me,
> > > > > but if you notice problems, please report them.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm considering doing the same for the liboctave, libinterp, libgui,
> > > > > src, and scripts directory.  At that point, the only directory that
> > > > > will be handled by a recursive make invocation will be libgnu.
> > > > >
> > > > > jwe
> > > > This all went smoothly for me until:
> > > >
> > > >   GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/mesh.png
> > > >    GEN      doc/interpreter/plot3.png
> > > >    GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/plot3.png
> > > >    GEN      doc/interpreter/extended.png
> > > >    GEN      doc/interpreter/octave.html/extended.png
> > > >    TEX      doc/refcard/refcard-a4.dvi
> > > > ^C^C^C^C^CMakefile:4332: recipe for target 'doc/refcard/refcard-a4.dvi'
> > > > failed
> > > >
> > > > Does a full build work for you? It appears to me that something is out
> > > > of order
> > > > in the build in doc/interpreter/
> > >
> > > A clean build does seem to work for me.
> > >
> > > Are you doing a parallel build?  How many jobs?
> > >
> > > Can you use
> > >
> > >   make V=1 ...
> > >
> > > to see the details of this failure and post the info here?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > jwe
> > Here is the result of V=1
> > cd doc/refcard && \
> > TEXINPUTS="./doc/refcard::./doc/interpreter::./doc/interpreter::./doc/interpreter::./doc/interpreter::./doc/interpreter::./doc/interpreter:/home/godfrey/tex/macros::/home/godfrey/tex/inputs::::"
> > \
> > tex doc/refcard/refcard-a4.tex
> > This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=tex)
> > ! I can't find file `doc/refcard/refcard-a4.tex'.
> > <*> doc/refcard/refcard-a4.tex
> >
> > (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
> > Please type another input file name:
>
> I have the same issue.  The problem is that the make rule changes
> directory into doc/refcard, but then tries to execute 'tex
> doc/refcard/refcard-a4.tex' rather than just 'tex refcard-a4.tex'.

I'm not sure why it succeeded for me.  I think the attached change 
should fix the problem.

jwe

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