[bug #68213] No documentation shown in octave 11 built from source

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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #68213 (group octave):

Thanks Rik,

I did the whole build/install process per your instructions and it worked -
documentation was there.

However, this is almost exactly how I do my octave installation. Thus the
question remains, why did I have the problem in my earlier install?

I think I found the answer. 

When I originally built octave, after the "make" step and before "make
install", I used the "./run-octave" option for testing, as suggested by the
build process:


Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:

   ./run-octave    - to run in place to test before installing


So, I did a "./run-octave --gui". 

This created an empty file "doc/interpreter/octave_interpreter.qhc". I
double-checked this today, after building with your instructions.
 
After this, "make install" copies the empty file to the install location and
spoils the documentation installation.


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