From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 21 13:51:46 1999
Subject: IRIX compiles with some problems
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: bsapp at lanl dot gov
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:50:50 -0500 (CDT)

On 21-Oct-1999, Ben Sapp <bsapp at nua dot lampf dot lanl dot gov> wrote:

| I compiled 2.1.18 in the following environment
| 
| uname -a -R 
| IRIX64 boondaq 6.5 6.5.2f 11051212 IP27
| 
| gcc -v
| Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/2.95.1/specs
| gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
| 
| c++ -v 
| Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/2.95.1/specs
| gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
| 
| makeinfo --version 
| This is GNU Makeinfo version 1.64, from texinfo-3.7.
| 
| I compiled with static and shared libraries.  The only problem I
| encountered was in creating the manual.  Here is what the errors from
| gmake were:
| 
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `munge-texi', needed by
| `octave.texi'.
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `octave.texi', needed by
| `octave.dvi'.
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `arith.texi', needed by
| `octave.dvi'.

This should be fixed in 2.1.19.  The problem was a missing file or
two.  I think I've got them all in the tar file now.

Thanks,

jwe