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]
>> 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.
>
> Note that most users don't run into this since the *.pdf documentation
> is provided already built in the distribution package.  The picins file is
> only needed if you are re-creating the pdf file, i.e. when preparing
> a new distribution package.

After installing picins package and running "make dist", I notice that 
the distribution archive file is left behind after a "make clean":

build1 # ls *.gz
ls: cannot access *.gz: No such file or directory
build1 # make dist
[snip]
build1 # ls *.gz
gnuplot-5.1.tar.gz
build1 # make clean
[snip]
build1 # ls *.gz
gnuplot-5.1.tar.gz

Should that archive file be removed as well?

Dan