Re: gplot.txt

[Ben Abbott]

> On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:02, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 3/1/16
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Things can get weird when tinkering with the build system, and jwe has been
> doing a lot recently to improve it.  One way to test things cleanly is to
> get rid of all the cruft in your source tree and try a fresh build.
> 
> I do
> 
> make maintainer-clean
> hg stat -u -i > unknown.list
> #look through unknown.list and delete things you don't need like leftover
> .o object files.
> bootstrap
> configure
> make
> 
> However, a quicker test is to update your source repository and then clone
> it to a new directory.  That will get you only the files under version
> control, and skip all the cruft.
> 
> cd octave-src
> hg pull
> hg update
> cd ..
> hg clone octave-src octave-tmp
> cd octave-tmp
> bootstrap
> configure
> make
> 
> --Rik

Good idea. I tried the first approach, but the problems persist. I'll try a 
fresh archive next (just to be sure)

Ben