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Re: Files built but never installed


From: Peter J. Acklam
Subject: Re: Files built but never installed
Date: 10 May 2004 21:14:41 +0200
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"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10-May-2004, Peter J. Acklam <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | The documentation wasn't built the first time because then I
> | didn't have "tex" installed.  And clearly, if there is no
> | "tex", there will be no DVI files.  :-)
> 
> Yes.  However, the distribution tar files contain the DVI and PS
> files already, so whether or not you have TeX installed, the
> Makefiles should not attempt to rebuild the DVI and PS files
> unless something in the sources changes.  But there could be a
> bug, so the files are rebuilt anyway.  Would someone like to try
> to track down the reason that this is happening?

Ah, I see.  I didn't notice that the .dvi and .ps files were a
part of the sources.

Before someone puts any effort into tracking down what's
happening, perhaps I should note exactly what I did to make this
happen.

Peter

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Peter J. Acklam - address@hidden - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam




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