Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

[Rick Jones]

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.  Anyway, what I have is whatever Ubuntu provides in 12.04:


address@hidden:~$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.


address@hidden:~$ texi2dvi --version
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

rick jones