On Friday 17 December 2010, Adrienne Thompson wrote: > > >> Stefano and friends: > >> > >> I've spotted the problem. I forgot to include "doc" in the top > >> Makefile.am in the SUBDIRS list. > >> > > I can confirm this is indeed the issue, and that it causes failures > > also with automake 1.10.3 and automake 1.9.6. > > > > Glad you solved your problem, BTW. > > > > Thank you Stefano. I wouldn't have solved it so quickly, however, had > you not suggested that I post the contents of my makefiles etc- so > thanks again.:-) > > About the dvi errors, "make" seems to need to find TEX. > Yes, that's required to make dvi, ps and pdf from texinfo inputs.
> I downloaded TEX yesterday, but it's so huge I've been contemplating > uninstalling and haven't yet set my $PATH. > My suggestion is to install it from the Debian packages. For me, that has always worked like a charm. > I thought all texinfo needed was texinfo.tex, which is in my > build-aux directory. > Nope, that file just defines the (extensive) set of TeX macros required to handle texinfo files. Regards, Stefano
