On Monday, 23 July 2012 16:05:32 UTC+8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > On 23 July 2012 00:08, Keshav Kini <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> writes: > >> However, when the doc tests are run, everything passes, which seems > >> wrong to me, if there were problems building the documentation. Can we > >> have a doctest which checks for this sort of error? Can the > >> documentation check the documentation???????? > > > > If we want all tests to pass even when optional dependencies of Sage are > > not installed, then we shouldn't be testing documentation > > building. According to the Sage installation guide, LaTeX is > > "recommended but not strictly required" as a dependency, and apparently > > it is required for building the docs. > > > > -Keshav > > It looks to me as if Latex is installed, though I'm the London > Underground now, and not able to log into the machine too easily. > Unless I'm mistaken, Latex is not working 100% correctly, which should > be detected I feel. > > you've got vintage latex there, from 2001! No wonder it's not quite working...
The easiest upgrade might be to do a source install from texlive site: http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html Dima > Dave > -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
