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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1


On 04/04/2016 13:40, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
New versions 4.0.1-1 of

     octave,

ThÃs package is apparently missing a dependency on texinfo since it needs
makeinfo to display help.  If there is a way to instead pre-format the
documentation, that'd probably be preferrable to requiring texinfo (which in
turn requires perl).


Regards,
Achim.


Never noticed.

However,
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.0.1/Getting-Help.html#Getting-Help

"The entire text of this manual is available from the Octave prompt via the command doc. In addition, the documentation for individual user-written functions and variables is also available via the help command."


"doc" does not need makeinfo as the documentation is already available
preprocessed in
/usr/share/octave/4.0.1/etc/doc-cache

"help" tries to build the documentation on the fly.
It seems an upstream bug  that does not check that is already available.

Regards
Marco




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