Re: Reg: GSoD 2020- Documentation

Greetings ,
When I'm running the command : "../configure" in my terminal, I've been
getting these errors constantly :
1. checking syntax of bison api.prefix (or name-prefix) declaration...

configure: WARNING:


I wasn't able to find a suitable style for declaring the api prefix

in a bison input file so I'm disabling bison.  We expect bison to

understand the '%define api.prefix { PREFIX }' syntax.


configure: WARNING:


I didn't find bison, or the version of bison that I found does not

support all the features that are required, but it's only a problem

if you need to reconstruct parse.cc, which is the case if you're

building from VCS sources.


checking for makeinfo... makeinfo

checking for makeinfo support for @sortas command... no

configure: WARNING:


I wasn't able to find a version of GNU makeinfo that supports the

@sortas command, but it's only a problem if you need to build the

manual, which is the case if you're building from VCS sources.


2.configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later


I did try to remove the 2nd error by using : "brew reinstall readline", but
nothing happened and I keep getting the same error.


Hoping to hear from you soon.

Regards

Prubhtej Singh

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:01 AM PRUBHTEJ SINGH <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Greetings,
> I would like to thank you all for your guidance and support. I will
> definitely use these steps and try to build octave . If I find any
> difficulties, I will surely contact you.
> Regards
> Prubhtej Singh
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM Andrew Janke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 5/6/20 12:10 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
>> > On 5/6/20 1:18 AM, PRUBHTEJ SINGH wrote:
>> >> Greetings,
>> >> I'm having a few difficulties in installing the dependencies through
>> the
>> >> terminal in mac .
>> >> Is there any other way I can extract the documentation ?
>> >> Hoping to hear from you soon
>> >> Regards
>> >> Prubhtej Singh
>> >
>> >
>> > On 5/6/20 8:04 AM, Nir Krakauer wrote:
>> >> Being able to build Octave would be important to a GSoD project, so
>> >> you should learn how to do it. We can try to help you if you give
>> >> details about the problem you had.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Dear Prubhtej Singh,
>> >
>> > Nir is right.  If it is not possible to build Octave on a mac (I never
>> > tried myself), maybe you should consider some virtualization technology,
>> > e.g. VirtualBox [1], with Debian / Ubuntu for building Octave "in a
>> box".
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Kai
>> >
>> > [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>> >
>>
>> If you just need Octave to be built, and not have to worry about working
>> on the build system itself, you can use Homebrew with the custom Octave
>> formulae provided by
>> Octave.app [1]. To do so:
>>
>> * Install MacTeX from https://tug.org/mactex/
>> * Install Homebrew from https://brew.sh/
>> * Then, in the terminal:
>>
>> $ brew tap octave-app/octave-app
>> $ brew install octave-default
>>
>> This will take care of installing all the dependencies for you, and
>> applies a couple patches needed on Mac. It's worked pretty reliably for
>> me for the past couple years.
>>
>> The "octave-default" formula builds and installs Octave from the head of
>> the "default" branch, which is where the latest development takes place.
>>
>> If you then need to build Octave from a local checkout of the octave
>> Mercurial repo (so you can see how your modifications to the doco look),
>> you can use my Mac build scripts from
>> https://github.com/apjanke/octave-build. These will build Octave against
>> all the dependencies installed by Homebrew.
>>
>> macOS 10.13 or newer is required.
>>
>> If any of this doesn't work for you, let us know at
>> https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues and we'll try to fix it.
>> One of our goals is to make it easy for people to build and hack on
>> Octave on macOS.
>>
>> (Octave.app is a third-party project dedicated to building and
>> distributing Octave on Macs, maintained by Sebastian Schoeps and myself.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew Janke
>>
>> [1] https://octave-app.org
>>
>