maingperf - Support: sr #107590, Add check for texi2dvi in configure

 
 

sr #107590: Add check for texi2dvi in configure

Submitter:  Maxim Prohorenko <gendalph>
Submitted:  Tue 08 Feb 2011 01:09:03 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Works For Me
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Closed Operating System:  GNU/Linux
* Mandatory Fields

Add a New Comment Rich Markup
   

Sat 03 Dec 2016 11:01:31 AM UTC, comment #2: 

A configure test is useful
a) for optional features,
b) when multiple different programs can provide the same result.

The PDF documentation is not optional; it is something we want all users to be able to view after "make".

There aren't different programs that can produce the DVI or PDF formatted documentation. They are always called 'texi2dvi' and 'texi2pdf', respectively.

Therefore, no configure test.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Sat 03 Dec 2016 10:57:57 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the report.

Meanwhile, "make" will not run into this error any more, because of this commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gperf.git;a=commitdiff;h=da47220e1f36796a9e88c1245e64b243d4a9487d

However, the following requirements still hold:
1) For "make" you need 'texi2pdf', so that it can build the PDF-formatted documentation.
2) For "make dist" - usually only invoked by maintainers -, you need texi2dvi, so that it can build the DVI and Postscript formatted documentation.

To fulfil these requirements, install

  • a recent version of GNU texinfo,
  • a basic TeX package, e.g. on Ubuntu, the packages 'texlive-base' and 'texlive-latex-base'.
Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Tue 08 Feb 2011 01:09:03 PM UTC, original submission:  

cd . && texi2dvi gperf.texi
/bin/sh: texi2dvi: command not found
make[1]: * [gperf.dvi] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `~/rpmbuild-all/gperf/rpmbuild/BUILD/gperf/doc'
make: * [all] Error 2

Maxim Prohorenko <gendalph>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

Attach Files:
   
   
Comment:
   

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by haible (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by gendalph (Submitted the item)
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

    Only logged-in users can vote.

     

    Follow 3 latest changes.

    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2016-12-03 haible StatusNone Works For Me
        Assigned toNone haible
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-f8d8.
    Corresponding source code