octave-3.0.1 building on ubuntu/gutsy - intel x32

[Levente Torok]

Dear Devs,

Sorry, if I submit bugs that are already solved but I found no way to search the archives easily.
So here is my report,

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During the  compilation of octave-3.0.1 on gutsy I met the following compilation errors:


EXINPUTS="..:.:./..::" texi2pdf ./octave.texi
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 file:line:error style messages enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(/home/lev/octave-3.0.1/doc/interpreter/octave.texi


[169] [170] [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180]
[181]) (./plot.texi Chapter 15 [182]
./plot.texi:68: epsf.tex not found, images will be ignored.
@image ...f.tex not found, images will be ignored}
                                                  @global @warnednoepsftrue ...
l.68 @image{plot,8cm}

?
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I don't know if the possiblity of running octave locally with script ./run-octave existed before but it is great!
Thanks.

However, after strating it I experienced the following:
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warning: LOADPATH is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 1 column 11
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 9
error: near line 1 of file `/home/lev/.octaverc'
octave:1> news
error: news: unable to locate NEWS file
error: evaluating if command near line 29, column 3
error: called from `news' in file `/home/lev/octave-3.0.1/scripts/miscellaneous/news.m'

So there is no "news".
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On the other hand I was told that "help -i" is not supported anymore
But it still works. I suggest it be removed for avoiding further confusion.

Thank you all,

Levente Torok

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