Octave-3.0.3 Build Fails to Build Docs

[Andrew Rowland]

When attempting to build Octave-3.0.3, the build fails when it gets to 
the documentation.  It is unable to find the file 
/home/hajek/devel/octave/release-3-0-x-build/examples/helloworld.cc.

My problem appears to be the following line in doc/conf.texi where the 
top of the source tree is hard coded.

	@set abs_top_srcdir /home/hajek/devel/octave/release-3-0-x-build

Simply changing this to:

	@set abs_top_srcdir `pwd`

allows for a successful build.

I searched the Octave bugs, but found no reports of a similar problem. 
I took a look at the Gentoo ebuild and they don't correct for this. 
This leads me to believe it's a personal problem.

I made no changes to the source.

I configured Octave with the following.  Maybe I missed a switch; 
definitely wouldn't be the first time.

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr 
--libdir=/usr/lib64  --libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-static 
--enable-shared --with-blas --with-fftw --with-hdf5 --with-mpi=mpich

where BUILD64="-m64 -O2 -pipe -combine -mtune=athlon64 -L/opt/mpich2/lib64"

Output of uname -a

	Linux aragorn 2.6.27 #1 SMP Sun Feb 22 13:28:36 EST 2009 x86_64 		AMD 
Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5400+ AuthenticAMD 			GNU/Linux

Distribution is Cross Linux from Scratch, version 1.1.0, x86_64 
multilib.  Only deviation from the book is that I add gmp, mpfr, and 
build gfortran when I install gcc.

I got my tarball from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/octave.

If it is, in fact, a bug and not user error as I suspect, I am happy to 
file an official bug report (or is that what I just did).  Just don't 
want to clutter up the bugs with my "duh" moments.

Regards,

Andrew Rowland

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