gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

[Peter TB Brett]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:54, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> As for the person who made the point that the problem was an autoconf
> issue:  If you would care to actually do some work and send a patch to
> fix the configure.ac file instead of proferring cheap advice, then I'd
> stand up and take notice.   Otherwise, you're just blowing easy
> advice out your @ss.  Tweaking the autotools so that they do the right
> thing in every case is a difficult job.  You'd know that if you tried
> to do some real implementation.

I think that the problem is that the latest release of gnucap (0.31?) doesn't 
even use autoconf/automake.  The calls to latex are hardcoded into the 
Makefiles.

Unless I've got the wrong version of the gnucap source code here (from 
ftp.gnu.org)...

Peter

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