"make distcheck" tests if the tarball contins all necessary files - which is why I started working on the out-of-tree build. Currently it fails with
"make dvi" fails: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: no such file or directory: imaxima.dvi
I am not sure, though, if that isn't a bug in texi2dvi and we cannot do anything about it.
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texi2dvi imaxima.texi
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fails, too => texi2dvi is broken on my system.