Re: Snapshot 3.5.91

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:35:17AM -0800, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> On 12/25/2011 09:53 AM, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 05:31:43PM -0800, Rik wrote:
> >>>  I don't know if this is just my system, but the documentation had to be
> >>>  re-built during the build.  This shouldn't happen and it makes it harder 
> >>> on
> >>>  systems where a complete Texinfo is not available.
> >Out of curiosity: on which system is the availability of texinfo a
> >problem?
> >
> >     Thomas
> The problem on Fedora systems is that texi2dvi and texi2pdf are no longer
> available  in the distribution starting with Fedora 14.  And, the
> texlive packages
> from CTAN no longer provide them.  So, they have to be provided by hand.
> Some users have complained to CTAN, but
> the texlive providers stated that since they do not use these scripts, they
> will no longer distribute them.
> 
> Does anyone know a better way around this problem?

I have no clue about Fedora packages, but the texinfo-tex RPM from 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=227376
has a texi2dvi binary under /usr/bin.

        Thomas