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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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktL48MACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8xpwCgoeeGHbN/ZsfJyvDMxy9+ZPnw AW8An1h7HA3clwKSs8bexzYdBOb25cgi =MjuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
