Re: [Flex-help] flex-2.5.37 testsuite clean up on Solaris

[Hugh S. <hg...@dm...>]

Texinfo is needed for turning info files into text and HTML,
but it is true texinfo assumes TeX will be producing the PDFs:

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Output-Formats.html#Output-Formats

which is why the error message below shows up.

I see no options in configure to turn this desire for PDF files off,
and my reading of the shell script itself doesn't illuminate this
for me.  Maybe I've missed something.  Is it something worth adding,
if it isn't possible now?

        Hugh



On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Will Estes wrote:

> You need GNU texinfo to build the docs.
> 
> 
> And what version of bison are you using? (I actually need to pull the
> latest bison version and rebuild flex to clean up some issues.)
> 
> On Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 11:49 pm -0400, Dennis Clarke <dc...@bl...> wrote:
> 
        [...]
> > texi2dvi --pdf --batch  --clean flex.texi 
> > You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> > your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
> > this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
> > your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> > output for more details.
> > 
> > For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://www.tug.org.  If
> > you happen to be using Debian, you can get it with this command:
> >   apt-get install tetex-bin
> > gmake[2]: *** [flex.pdf] Error 1