Re: [O] Unable to 'make oldorg'

[Nick Dokos]

Greg Lucas <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm trying to build using the "oldorg" target. (I'm use el-get and the
> recipe relies on "oldorg".) On my OS X machine this is failing because
> I don't have Tex (see output below). This was not a requirement
> before. 
> 
> I believe the problem is a recent change to targets.mk that made "doc"
> a prerequisite to "compile". I'm not familiar enough with this build
> to understand the reason for this change or propose an alternative
> that would keep "oldorg" working as before.
> 

Try editing local.mk and uncomment the line

# ORG_MAKE_DOC = info # html pdf

Nick

> output:
> 
> make -C doc info
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `info'.
> make -C doc html
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `html'.
> make -C doc pdf
> texi2pdf --batch --clean org.texi
> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> output for more details.
> 
> For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://www.tug.org.  If
> you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command:
>   apt-get install tetex-bin
> make[1]: *** [org.pdf] Error 1
> make: *** [pdf] Error 2
> 
>