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

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

This behavior is due to autoconf/automake.

On Thursday, 25 October 2012, 11:56 am +0100, Hugh Sasse <hg...@dm...> wrote:

> 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

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