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Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)
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Russell Shaw |
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Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places) |
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Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:56:57 +1000 |
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Stuart Brorson wrote:
Al, group,
I am getting the next spin of the gEDA CD ready for release. On FC5 I
have a problem: If dvipdfm is installed, but Latex is not, I get this
error message:...
Latex is required to get a Tex DVI file.
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_mono/automake.html#Documentation
...
checking for latex... notfound
checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
(etc.)
--------------- <configure spew> --------------
Anyway, IMO we shouldn't require users to build .pdf files in their
distributions. Pdfs should just come with the distribution. IMO a
.pdf file is a "make dist" target, requiring the developer to have the
right tools installed, not the user.
If every package had pdf files already built, it would increase bandwidth
usage a large amount (eg, from Debian repositories).
The reason I am bleating like this is that I want to modify the gnucap
automake stuff so that the .pdfs are "make dist" targets, and the
distributions have .pdfs (any anything generated from Latex) already
built in. That way I can circumvent all user config problems when
they try to build the gEDA Suite.
I am not an autoconf/automake expert, but will happily submit
patches acheiving this. But I was wondering if any of the development
gurus out there had some example code which implemented this scheme?
I looked at PCB, which does this, but I was flummoxed by its
complexity. Therefore, if somebody could point to a different
open-source program using the GNU automake stuff which cleanly ships
.pdfs in the distro tarball, I would very much appreciate it.
Alternately, if the PCB devlopers could explain enough of their scheme
so that I could copy it, I would like that too. Any and all pointers
appreciated!
[Gnucap-devel] Re: gEDA-dev: Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places), Dan McMahill, 2006/07/29