On Thursday 07 December 2006 09:10, nbs_r wrote: > After executing "configure;make" I've got a following build > error: > > ================= > make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/gnucap-2006-12-04/man' > WARNING: latex was not found on your system but > gnucap-man.dvi is out of date and needs to be > rebuilt from the LaTeX .tex files. Changes to > the .tex files will be ignored. > /usr/bin/dvipdfm gnucap-man > > gnucap-man.dvi -> gnucap-man.pdf > > dvi_init: Specified DVI file doesn't exist > > Output file removed. > make[3]: *** [gnucap-man.pdf] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/tmp/gnucap/gnucap-2006-12-04/man' > =================
Let me guess ... You have dvipdfm installed, but not latex. NBS: Please check to confirm this. Try building with "./configure.old;make", which only builds the docs if you ask. Alternatively, try "touch gnucap-man.dvi" then "touch gnucap-man.pdf" after ./configure, before make. That should block building of gnucap-man.pdf, which should hide the problem. Dan: (and others..) I think it should not build the docs by default. Gnu guidelines say not to build docs by default. Gnu guidelines also say that anything built by running "make" should not be supplied. I think some kind of readable manual is needed. The pdf file is one way to do this. Seeing how common it is to not have latex, it seems to me that providing the .pdf (as is done) and having it not built unless explicitly requested is the way to do it. With the old build system, you cd to man and do "make pdf", "make html" or whatever you want, or "make" for all of them. Another point, regarding the .dvi file ... Apparently, make looks at the whole chain .. .pdf depends on .dvi, so if .dvi is missing, build it , etc. even if I didn't ask for .dvi . You might say to provide .dvi, which would stop .pdf from being built. Actually a null file works as well. I think it just points again to that the docs should not be built by default, as per Gnu recommendations. _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
