Re: AW: automake help

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 05/23/2017 01:01 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 May, 2017 12:37:28 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
[snip]
>>> 3) Fix the automake rules that are leaving a *.o file in the windows subdirectory.
>>
>> The "windows" directory name adds to my confusion.  Is this a
>> Windows-only thing?  When I build (out of tree) on linux with
>>
>> $ automake --version
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
>>
>> I see docs/windows/doc2wxhtml-doc2html.o after make in the
>> build-directory tree, then that directory is empty after doing a "make
>> clean".
>
> Right. That is the exact issue that is causing problems for me.
> It's fine that "make clean" works, but this does not stop the *.o file from
> being included in the source distribution package from "make dist".

OK.


>> Oddly, when running "make dist" I'm running into this very old issue:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/655/
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.
>
> picins.sty is a LaTeX style file.  Because some people are not
> happy with the [lack of] accompanying license statement, some distros
> no longer include it in their base TeX package.
> You can download it separately from CTAN just like any other TeX component.

I'm reading about this just now.  I'm going to add some references to 
the bugs/655 thread for anyone else running into this issue.

Dan