On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:28:03PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> I just tried to use tulip as a test for a fix in xmltex, since it
> Build-Depends on it.  However, it turns out that it is never used, only
> html documentation is created (using a custom rule in debian/rules, not
> the upstream Makefiles).

As noted in the 2.0.5-* changelog entries, there were problems
building the docs from upstream Makefiles at this time, so I switched
to another toolchain, and probably messed up the build-deps :)


> But it seems this is not just a superfluous build-dependency, but
> there's also an upstream bug: The log says near the end of the configure
> run
> 
> config.status: creating docs/Makefile
> config.status: creating docs/devTeamDoxygen/Makefile
> config.status: creating docs/doxygen/Makefile
> config.status: creating docs/developerHandbook/Makefile
> config.status: creating docs/userHandbook/Makefile
> 
> but none of these files is actually created, only the Makefile.am and
> Makefile.in are there.

If you're seeing those files, you're looking at the wrong place:
debian/rules builds the software in the BUILD/ directory, so you
should rather look at this place.

Best regards,
-- 
Yann.

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