Re: Configuration bug: should not make in .../share/LaTeX/ if TeX is not present

[<tim...@en...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 01 October 2006 04:39 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
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>> I'm saying the latter. LaTeX is not usually installed on Macs, and, fo=
r
>> example, octave just ignores installing the octave LaTeX documentation=
 on
>> Macs. I don't think kpsexpand exists either
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> kpsexpand is part of TeX.
>
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>> I am always getting error messages about not finding kpsexpand
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> I used to get those messages too, clogging up my system log files.
> I only recently learned that they were coming from gnuplot, and
> tried to fix it.
>
> It is *supposed* to be a configuration option now,
>    ./configure --with-kpsexpand
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> I thought that fixed everything, but as you have found,
> the .../share/LaTeX Makefile is still a problem. =20
>
> I'm not very good at this sort of build-time dependency.
> Can someone fix it so that the descent into .../share/LaTeX
> doesn't happen if TeX is not insalled?
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Here is a patch that builds share/LaTeX only when --with-kpsexpand is=20
given (I cannot post a patch to the sourceforge page, can this be solved=20
too ?)

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e