From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: pdf documents won't build Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:22:55 +0000 Message-ID: <87y7qtbl1s.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <1162242797.7482.138.camel@iron.psg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162502675 3338 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 21:24:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 22:24:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfk1q-0006Bf-HE for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:23:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfk1p-0003Ag-Nt for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfk1m-00035o-BW for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfk1k-00032Y-Vx for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfk1k-00031P-Bb for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gfk1k-0006M5-7P for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns (host86-145-51-69.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.51.69]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A21140A1B2; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1676F58C; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Ross Boylan In-Reply-To: <1162242797.7482.138.camel@iron.psg.net> (Ross Boylan's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:13:17 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:3380 Archived-At: Ross Boylan writes: > I got the tarball for guile-1.6.8 and ran configure at the top level. I > did this solely to get the documentation. > > When I do make pdf from the top, I get (excerpt) > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc' > Making pdf in ref > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc/ref' > GUILE="/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile" ../../scripts/snarf-guile-m4-docs ../../guile-config/guile.m4 autoconf-macros.texi > /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile: line > 83: /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/libguile/guile: No such file or > directory > /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile: line 83: > exec: /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/libguile/guile: cannot execute: > No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [autoconf-macros.texi] Error 126 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc/ref' > > It looks as if maybe some other stuff needs to be built first, and the > Makefile isn't picking up on it. That's correct. It's currently the case that you need to run a plain "make" first. Are you in a position to do that? > I posted this to guile-user a few days ago. Someone sent me prebuilt > docs (for 1.8 actually, which isn't the one I'm using), along with the > information that they built their docs on MS-Windows and could not build > them under Linux. That's been the only response, so I figured this > might be a real bug and am filing this report. Thanks; we appreciate your report. Given that there is an easy workaround, though, how important is this for you? > I'm a bit surprised you don't have people enter bugs in the bug tracker; > the BUGS file said to send an email like this. I agree that it is unusual not to use a tracker these days, but bug-guile@gnu.org is still for now our primary mechanism for reporting and dealing with bug reports. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile