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[following evil top-posting convention]

We could make them install texlive-base.

:-)

But, seriously, what I'd been doing for my own packages, e.g. octave and
gnuplot, was to pull out the documentation into a separate package if it
needed TeX to build.

On 1/11/10 9:01 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
> Hmmm... I'm sure I will hear objections about that, from people being forced 
> to install tetex-base just because some other package wants to use texinfo... 
>  I'm cc-ing fink-devel to see if anybody has an ideas about working around 
> this.
> 
>   -- Dave
> 
> 
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Schindler Karl-Michael wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dave
>>
>> Hanspeter Niederstrasser checked the packages in the stable tree 
>> (http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/fink-build-forever/) and one failing 
>> package was binutils-doc. The relevant part of the error log is this:
>>
>>  cd binutils/doc
>>  texi2dvi -I "." -I "../../libiberty" -I "../../bfd/doc" -I ../../bfd/doc 
>> --pdf --batch -o binutils.pdf `test -f 'binutils.texi' || echo 
>> './'`binutils.texi
>> test -f 'binutils.texi' || echo './'
>> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
>> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
>> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
>> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
>> output for more details.
>>
>> So, the problems comes with texi2dvi, which is in the texinfo package. I 
>> guess you should add a depence on tetex-base.
>>
>> Regards - Michael
>>
>>
> 
> 


- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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