David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Yes, but the Debian auctex package needs latex for installation, because >>>> it reruns "./configure", which fails without latex. >>> >>> Because LaTeX (and other stuff) is used for generating the >>> documentation. But it is probably not a hard requirement for the >>> finished package. >> >> Then a --no-generate-docs option would be nice. > > The tarball comes with pregenerated docs. If you don't touch their > sources, they are not regenerated.
But it's not Make which fails, configure fails if it cannot find LaTeX. > One can also, if one really must, > pass LATEX=: PDFLATEX=: and similar to configure, and it will then > pretend regenerating the docs. That would probably also cure the failure, but it's ugly. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
