Re: Doc-build failure: pdfetex exit with bad status

[Jonathan Kulp]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Andrew Hawryluk <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Jonathan Kulp<address@hidden> wrote:
> On a fresh installation of Linux Mint (and previously of xubuntu, ubuntu,
> crunchbang, and ubuntulite) I can't get the docs to build properly. It's
> taking several "make doc" commands to get each of the pdf files to be
> written, and then when they appear they're missing all the images.  Here's
> the tail of the terminal output:
>
> /b
> luesky/cm/cmtt12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmtt9.pfb
>></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/latex-fonts/lcircle1.pfb>
> Output written on lilypond.pdf (453 pages, 1615070 bytes).
> Transcript written on lilypond.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make[1]: *** [out-www/lilypond.pdf] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jon/lilypond/Documentation/user'
> make: *** [doc-stage-1] Error 2

When I was getting the same error a couple of moths ago I dug further
into the .log file and found a line somewhere telling me which TeX
package I was missing. (I think it was the 'epsf' package in my case.)
Granted, you are already getting some output, so that may not be the
case for you.

Andrew

Thanks, Andrew, I bet it is a missing TeX package.  On my work partition I have a ton of texlive packages installed and I've never had a problem building the docs. I'm trying not to install anything extra on this experimental partition, trying to create a lilypond-dev-ready .iso of xubuntu (see "development on Windows" thread), and there must be something missing.  I'm getting close though. 

Jon
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