[help-texinfo] Version 5.X versus 4.13 and the netperf manual

[Rick Jones]

Hi -

I have been told that the netperf.texi file for the netperf manual 
(http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2_trunk/doc/ will successfully 
convert to DVI when using version 5.X of texi2dvi, but not when using 
version 4.13.  I have been told this by some folks on the automake 
mailing list.

4.13 is the version I happen to have on my development box (Ubuntu 12.04 
distro), and I think that something other than 5.X is what the Debian 
package maintainer for netperf has.  He has asked that I disable 
generation of .ps files to simplify the diffs between netperf upstream 
and Debian.  That is why I was starting at the automake mailing list - 
looking to see if there was a way to get automake to not automagically 
generate the .ps instructions.  (There neither is, nor will there be a 
way to...)

I suppose one path forward is just say "you must have texi2dvi from 
5.x",  but I am wondering if there might be something I could do with 
netperf.texi to allow the pre 5.X texi2dvi to work with it successfully?

thanks and happy benchmarking,

rick jones
http://www.netperf.org/
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> Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?
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> Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:38 -0700
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> On 05/01/2013 01:39 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On 05/01/2013 08:53 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> > > Anyway, what I have is whatever Ubuntu provides in 12.04:
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> > > address@hidden:~$ automake --version
> > > automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3
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> > > address@hidden:~$ texi2dvi --version
> > > texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135
> > So this isn't a "bad versions of tools" issue.
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> > 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>
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> > With that, "make dvi" fails for me.  But so does this simple command:
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> >    $ cd doc && TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" /usr/bin/texi2dvi netperf.texi
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> > 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!
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> > So, having estabilished Automake is not the guilty party, I'll let you
> > chase the issue from ere on.  Good luck ;-)
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> To the texinfo mailing list I go then :)
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> rick
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