Re: New texlive packages may be required for building from source

[Rik]

On 07/10/2015 03:30 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:14:45 -0700, Rik wrote:
>> Just a heads up, after Mike updated the build system to use a newer version
>> of texinfo.tex from gnulib the documentation build broke.  It turned out
>> that on Ubuntu 12.04 I needed to add the extra package
>> texlive-latex-recommended.  On newer versions of Ubuntu the correct package
>> is texlive-fonts-recommended.
> Thanks for noticing that and reporting the right packages needed. This
> had been mentioned on Debian bug #790626 [1] but it wasn't clear to me
> what change required that dependency.
>
> Knowing this was needed I might not have pushed this on stable. Not
> being able to build with Texinfo 6 is bad, but so is not being able to
> build because of dependency creep. What do you think, is this new
> build-dependency an acceptable change for 4.0.1? Need to be mentioned
> in NEWS? Or since the packages are called "recommended" users should
> have them already? I didn't install anything new, so I must have
> already had the right one.
>
> [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790626#62
>

Mike,

I think we should make a note of it in the NEWS file, but it is otherwise
okay to keep.  Most people will get Octave from a distro or build it from a
tarball -- neither of which will require an extra package.

--Rik