On 05/29/2013 08:33 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On MSYS, I have this situation:
>
> $ texi2dvi --version
> You don't have a working TeX binary installed, but the texi2dvi script
> can't proceed without it. If you want to use this script, you have to
> install some kind of TeX, for example the MikTeX package from
> http://miktex.org/ (which is not part of the typical MSYS environment).
> $ echo $?
> 1
>
> Which causes the below failure on master (baf8a1c22acce0908) in
> t/txinfo-no-split.sh.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/c/Cygwin/home/peda/automake/t/txinfo-no-split.dir/txinfo-no-split-1.0/_build'
> TEXINPUTS="..:$TEXINPUTS" \
> MAKEINFO='makeinfo --split-size 10 -I ..' \
> texi2dvi --build-dir=foo.t2d -o foo.dvi \
> ../foo.texi
> You don't have a working TeX binary installed, but the texi2dvi script
> can't proceed without it. If you want to use this script, you have to
> install some kind of TeX, for example the MikTeX package from
> http://miktex.org/ (which is not part of the typical MSYS environment).
> make[1]: *** [foo.dvi] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/c/Cygwin/home/peda/automake/t/txinfo-no-split.dir/txinfo-no-split-1.0/_build'
>
>
The patch below should fix the issue. Can you confirm?
Thanks,
Stefano
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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:41:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid a spurious failure when TeX is not installed.
Fixes automake bug#14499.
* t/txinfo-no-split.sh: If TeX is not available, redefine 'dvi' to be a
dummy target, so that "make distcheck" doesn't fail while trying to build
the DVI version of the Texinfo manual.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
---
t/txinfo-no-split.sh | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/txinfo-no-split.sh b/t/txinfo-no-split.sh
index aecf7e7..6a50f1c 100644
--- a/t/txinfo-no-split.sh
+++ b/t/txinfo-no-split.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ check-local:
test "`find $(srcdir) . | grep '\.info'`" = "$(srcdir)/foo.info"
END
+# Systems lacking a working TeX installation cannot run "make dvi".
+if test -z "$TEX"; then
+ warn_ "TeX installation missing, \"make dvi\" will be skipped"
+ echo AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wno-override >> Makefile.am
+ echo 'dvi:; @echo Tex is missing, do nothing' >> Makefile.am
+fi
+
cat > foo.texi << 'END'
\input texinfo
@setfilename foo.info
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