Re: make top-doc fails: could not open out/NEWS.texi: No such file or directory

[James Lowe]

David,

On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:29:23 +0100, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Lindén <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I found that installing the pdflatex program fixes the issue, but the
> > failure is hardly user-friendly. Instead the build system should say
> > something along the lines: "pdflatex was not found. Please install it
> > and reconfigure before running make top-doc".
> 
> I thought our default idea was to use xelatex?

Xelatex is optional. If you have it installed make will use that, else if not 
you get a 'warning' during the .configure and PDFlatex (or whatever the 
standard requirement is) will be used instead.

As to what Karl has commented on, I believe that the .configure output WILL 
post a warning.

Karl note that you can still compile LilyPond without PDFlatex, you just cannot 
compile the docs (and the reg tests).

James