gEDA-dev: Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

[Dan McMahill]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Al, group,
> 
> I am getting the next spin of the gEDA CD ready for release.  On FC5 I
> have a problem:  If dvipdfm is installed, but Latex is not, I get this
> error message:



> I am not an autoconf/automake expert, but will happily submit
> patches acheiving this.  But I was wondering if any of the development
> gurus out there had some example code which implemented this scheme?
> I looked at PCB, which does this, but I was flummoxed by its
> complexity.  Therefore, if somebody could point to a different
> open-source program using the GNU automake stuff which cleanly ships
> .pdfs in the distro tarball, I would very much appreciate it.
> Alternately, if the PCB devlopers could explain enough of their scheme
> so that I could copy it, I would like that too.  Any and all pointers
> appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart

I believe that gnucap should already do the right thing.  The problem is 
that the latest snapshot tarball was not created with 'make dist' using 
the new autoconf/automake build system but rather created with the old 
build system.  I believe your problems will go away once the gnucap 
tarballs start being generated with 'make dist' or preferably 'make 
distcheck'.

If you want to work around it then generate the dvi file and add it to 
the distribution or you could also build your own distfile with 'make 
dist' and put that on the CD.  You'll need latex but the users won't.


-Dan (the one who wrote the autoconf and automake stuff for gnucap)