Re: build: missing explicit dependency?

[Julien Rioux]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Francisco Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2013/3/12 Julien Rioux <address@hidden>:
>> On 02/03/2013 11:54 AM, Francisco Vila wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello. When trying to build lilypond, I had to install the
>>> texlive-metapost package which the autogen.sh did not ask for. Is this
>>> a flaw of the config process?
>>>
>>
>> Actually, ./configure is checking for both mf and mpost. Do you still have a
>> config.log around from the failing build by any chance?
>
> No. I have one that contains
>
> configure:7216: found /usr/bin/mpost
> configure:7227: result: mpost
> ...
> configure:7067: found /usr/bin/mf-nowin
> configure:7078: result: mf-nowin
>
> but mpost and mf-nowin are provided by the texlive-binaries package in
> my distro. I had to install texlive-metapost in addition. I could try
> uninstalling it and see if it fails.
>
> --
> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
> www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

OK I see, so testing for the binaries is not enough. We`ll need to
find out what else is required and add a test for it. Does anybody
know? If you or anyone else do uninstall texlive-metapost and provide
a log from a failed make, I think that would be useful.

Cheers,
Julien