Mercurial download: "bootstrap" requires, but does not build, several ".mk" files

[Daniel Wagenaar]

Dear Octave developers,

Having access to the mercurial source is terrific. However, my first 
build attempt was made more difficult by the fact that the "bootstrap" 
script fails with error messages about missing files:

  doc/interpreter/images.mk
  liboctave/vx-op-src.mk (and several other .mk files)
  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/modules.mk

As you are probably aware, these files are generated by the scripts

  doc/interpret/config-images.sh
  liboctave/config-ops.sh
  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/config-module.sh

After I ran those scripts, "bootstrap" worked fine. Would it be 
appropriate to add code to the "bootstrap" script to call those three 
"config.sh" files directly?

As a side note, it might be helpful to add a "README.mercurial" file 
that gives basic build instructions. It probably won't take anybody long 
to figure out to run the "bootstrap" script, but when I got error 
messages from that, I spent a fair amount of time looking around to see 
if I had failed to follow proper instructions.

To reproduce the problem (as of 4/8/2011):

  cd /tmp
  rm -rf octave
  hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
  cd octave
  ./bootstrap

Thanks for your work on octave,

Daniel Wagenaar.
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