Re: [Gcl-devel] RE: building gcl-2.6.8pre on Solaris x86 with gnu (blastwave) toolchain

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Can you please refresh my memory on what you feel the desired policy
should be on building the documentation?

Take care,

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | XLIB>pdflatex dwdoc.tex
> | /bin/bash: pdflatex: command not found
> | make[1]: *** [dwdoc.pdf] Error 127
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home0/wspage/gcl/xgcl-2'
> | make: *** [unixport/saved_gcl] Error 2
> | 
> | ------
> | 
> | It is true that I don't have LaTeX installed but am quite
> | sure that I used to be able to build gcl-2.6.8pre without
> | LaTeX present. I needed to install LaTeX anyway so now build
> | completes ok. Is this a new dependency or is something wrong?
> 
> I thought Camm fixed this.
> 
> Hmm. wait; it was for texinfo, not pdflatex.  So, I believe we should
> do the same for pdflatex -- it does not always make sense to insist on
> building the documentation; some programs like Axiom, are just trying
> to use GCL underneath.
> 
> -- Gaby
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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