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Bhanu Prakash
Bhanu Prakash

Reputation: 101

make error while building GNU Octave from sources

mkdir .build                            && \
cd    .build                            && \
./../configure --prefix=$HOME/my_octave && \ [1]
make -j2                                && \ [2]
make check                              && \
make install

While running make -j2 I get the error as 

error: print: error opening file 'extended.tex'
error: called from    print>latex_standalone at line 1029 column 5
    __opengl_print__ at line 214 column 5    
print at line 759 column 16    plotimages at line 109 column 7  
GEN      doc/interpreter/gplot.pdfMakefile:27911: recipe for target `'doc/interpreter/extended.pdf' failedmake[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/extended.pdf] Error `1make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....make[2]: Leaving directory `'/home/bhanu/octave/.build'Makefile:26305: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failedmake[1]: *** `[all-recursive] Error 1make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/bhanu/octave/.build'Makefile:9916: 


recipe for target 'all' failedmake: *** [all] Error 2

Can someone help me solve the error? I am running it on Ubuntu 18.04 system.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 406

Answers (2)

matzeri
matzeri

Reputation: 8476

Some times the build process tries to rebuild all the documentation. I am building from the source octave-5.2.0.tar.lz file and the usual workaround is just

touch AUTHORS BUGS INSTALL.OCTAVE

between configure and the first make in the build tree.

At the end of build phase I have only two PDFs

./doc/interpreter/octave.pdf
./doc/liboctave/liboctave.pdf

Upvotes: 1

Bhanu Prakash
Bhanu Prakash

Reputation: 101

Create file named 'extended.tex' like this:

touch doc/interpreter/extended.tex

You have to do this inside the octave/.build/ directory.

Do this for any errors similar to this in the future. It worked for me this way.

Upvotes: 0

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