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Re: make top-doc fails: could not open out/NEWS.texi: No such file or di
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James Lowe |
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Re: make top-doc fails: could not open out/NEWS.texi: No such file or directory |
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Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:16:20 +0000 (GMT) |
David,
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:29:23 +0100, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Karl Lindén <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I found that installing the pdflatex program fixes the issue, but the
> > failure is hardly user-friendly. Instead the build system should say
> > something along the lines: "pdflatex was not found. Please install it
> > and reconfigure before running make top-doc".
>
> I thought our default idea was to use xelatex?
Xelatex is optional. If you have it installed make will use that, else if not
you get a 'warning' during the .configure and PDFlatex (or whatever the
standard requirement is) will be used instead.
As to what Karl has commented on, I believe that the .configure output WILL
post a warning.
Karl note that you can still compile LilyPond without PDFlatex, you just cannot
compile the docs (and the reg tests).
James