On 05/01/2013 10:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
On 05/01/2013 06:47 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
Why is a good question. I am the messenger in this case. I'm not sure
that the .ps actually makes successfully for the netperf manual, but I
do not know that to be the reason for the request.
Ah, OK. We don't shoot the messenger ;-)
Well, that's no fun for you :)
Indeed, a "make netperf.ps" fails - there are a boatload of messages
about over and underful hboxes, and the end is:
Transcript written on netperf.log.
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: no such file or directory: netperf.dvi
make: *** [netperf.dvi] Error 1
Stop, this is saying that the building of the *DVI* itself has failed.
(Then of course one won't be able to build the PostScript: that is
generated from the DVI...). My guess is that this isn't an automake
issue, but a texi2dvi one --- I don't know whether due to a bug in
texi2dvi or in the netperf's texinfo files.
Given that I find texinfo to be black magic (I update the netperf manual
maybe a couple times a year at most) the latter is entirely possible.
And there is another thing to consider: Automake 1.13 has removed support
for any makeinfo/texi2dvi older than 4.9. If you are using a Makefile
generated by Automake 1.13.x with a texi2dvi < 4.9, you might be out of
luck.
I guess a DVI file is not required for PDF since that has no failures
reported. Anyway, what I have is whatever Ubuntu provides in 12.04:
raj@tardy:~$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@gnu.org>.
raj@tardy:~$ texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
rick jones
