On 05/01/2013 08:53 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > 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. > Indeed, the PDF is built directly from the texinfo sources.
> Anyway, what I have is whatever Ubuntu provides in 12.04: > > > raj@tardy:~$ automake --version > automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3 > > raj@tardy:~$ texi2dvi --version > texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135 > So this isn't a "bad versions of tools" issue. Anyway, I can reproduce the failure with the vanilla tarball: <http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/n/netperf/netperf_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz> With that, "make dvi" fails for me. But so does this simple command: $ cd doc && TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi netperf.texi which shows the issue has nothing to do with Automake. In fact, the above works if I use Texinfo 5.x instead of Texinfo 4.13! So, having estabilished Automake is not the guilty party, I'll let you chase the issue from ere on. Good luck ;-) Stefano
