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Re: Files built but never installed
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Peter J. Acklam |
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Re: Files built but never installed |
Date: |
10 May 2004 19:42:42 +0200 |
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"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10-May-2004, Peter J. Acklam <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
> | /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/interpreter/octave.ps
> | /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/liboctave/liboctave.dvi
> | /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/liboctave/liboctave.ps
> |
> | My build dir was (obviously) "/var/tmp/octave-2.1.57". Is there
> | any reason why these files are not installed? If the files aren't
> | installed, why build them in the first place?
>
> So you can view or print them.
Well, if they aren't installed they will be gone when the build
dir is removed, but perhaps they aren't really meant for end
users. I just found it strange because if I hadn't kept track of
what was built without and with TeTeX, I would never have noticed
these files at all.
> Where would you have them installed? I don't think there is any
> standard location for installing documents like this.
I put "non-man" documentation under /usr/local/doc, so I would
place them in
/usr/local/doc/octave/interpreter/octave.dvi
/usr/local/doc/octave/interpreter/octave.ps
/usr/local/doc/octave/liboctave/liboctave.dvi
/usr/local/doc/octave/liboctave/liboctave.ps
but that's just my preference.
> | The steps I used for building Octave were
> |
> | ./configure LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/lib --disable-readline
> | make
> | make check
> | make install
>
> If you don't change the install prefix, the documentation should
> not have to be rebuilt. At least that is the idea. Perhaps
> there is a bug in the build system somewhere, or there are other
> variables that are substituted into the documentation that I've
> now forgotten about.
The documentation wasn't built the first time because then I
didn't have "tex" installed. And clearly, if there is no "tex",
there will be no DVI files. :-)
Peter
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