I have octave 3.8.2 installed with the doc flag enabled. At the octave command prompt, "help zeros" works fine but "doc zeros" results in: error: doc: unable to find the Octave info manual, Octave installation is incomplete -------- > equery uses octave [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for sci-mathematics/octave-3.8.2: U I + + X : Add support for X11 + + curl : Add support for client-side URL transfer library + + doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally - - fftw : Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms + + glpk : Add support for sci-mathematics/glpk for linear programming - - gnuplot : Enable support for gnuplot (data and function plotting) - - graphicsmagick : Add support for media-gfx/graphicsmagick - - gui : Enable the graphical user interface - - hdf5 : Add support for the Hierarchical Data Format v5 + + imagemagick : Enable support for Imagemagick (image converter) - - java : Add support for Java + + opengl : Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics) - - postscript : Enable support for the PostScript language (often with ghostscript-gpl or libspectre) + + qhull : Add support for media-libs/qhull, to allow `delaunay', `convhull', and related functions + + qrupdate : Add support for sci-libs/qrupdatefor QR and Cholesky update functions + + readline : Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants + + sparse : Add enhanced support for sparse matrix algebra with SuiteSparse - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well + + zlib : Add support for zlib (de)compression
Please attach emerge --info octave and indicate whether you've had this working in the past with a previous version (indicating a regression in Gentoo packaging)
I am not sure if the doc command has ever been working, I don't think I've tried it before, sorry. ------------ ~>emerge --info octave Portage 2.2.28 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.4.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600K_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16422632 total, 2442376 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16709992 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:00:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 ccache version 3.2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.2.4::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.19.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 cross-avr location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X 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authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics wacom" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en cs" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en cs" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sci-mathematics/octave-3.8.2::gentoo was built with the following: USE="X curl doc glpk imagemagick opengl qhull qrupdate readline sparse zlib -fftw -gnuplot -graphicsmagick -gui -hdf5 -java -postscript -static-libs" ABI_X86="64"
Update: the problem persists in Octave version 3.8.2-r1.
I have found a useful hint at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41054 . Gentoo uses bz2 compression of the /usr/share/info/octave.info and the Octave's doc.m code does not seem to be aware of the *.bz2 possibility. Perhaps running configure with an argument of "infofile=/usr/share/info/octave.info.bz2" would help (or fixing the doc.m).
(In reply to Jan Hrabe from comment #4) > I have found a useful hint at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41054 . Gentoo > uses bz2 compression of the /usr/share/info/octave.info and the Octave's > doc.m code does not seem to be aware of the *.bz2 possibility. Perhaps > running configure with an argument of > "infofile=/usr/share/info/octave.info.bz2" would help (or fixing the doc.m). This is a duplicate of bug 547100.
Removed from tree, reopen if issue persists. commit 8fc2192f2c98e1de3f9667d4d968141c6df8d55c Author: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Jun 11 23:02:50 2017 +0200 sci-mathematics/octave: Remove old
