[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51911] doc build fails with texi2dvi/texi2pdf errors, revisited

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #51911 (project octave):

                  Status:               Need Info => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #6:

V=1 isn't something specific to the rules for building documentation, it's a
general feature of Makefiles generated by automake when using silent rules. 
So this problem applies to all failed targets.  If you want to see the
commands used, you need to use V=1.

OTOH, the TeX targets are a little different, because you don't even see the
error messages.  That's because they are written to stdout along with a lot of
other log info instead going to stderr, and there's no easy way to just
display the errors.  So automake just hides all the output from these rules
when in silent mode.  Fixing this seems like more trouble than it is worth. 
This is a developer problem anyway.  Typical users who build from a tarball
shouldn't need to rebuild DVI files.

Closing as "won't fix".

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