[avrdude-dev] Building avrdude doc/

[Erik Christiansen]

G'day Ted, et al,

   Despite apt-getting first texi2dvi, then the whole 42 MB of texinfo
   binary package, my build of avrdude downloaded from savannah today
   still blows up in doc/. (See Background: below)

   (Tried ./configure --help , without much luck, then peeked in the
   Makefile.)

   Is there a target that could safely be used to build just the source,
   then go to doc/ and make html, since that builds OK? (And I'd settle
   for manpages, any day. :)

   If that is possible, I could thankfully uninstall texinfo.

Background:
   On debian woody, doing:

   export PREFIX=/usr/local/avr
   export PATH=$PATH:$PREFIX/bin
   ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
   ...                           # Bad builds, due to no texinfo tools.
                                 # (Wot configure woz just as happy with
                                 # as I am. ;-)
   make distclean
   ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
   make

   gives a serious gripe while "Making all in doc":

>>>
   dvips -o avrdude.ps avrdude.dvi
   This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software
   (www.radicaleye.com)
   ' TeX output 2003.07.11:1717' -> avrdude.ps
   <texc.pro>. [1] [2] [-1] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
   [11] [12] 
   [13] [14] [15] [16] 
   TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" \
   MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /usr/local/src/avrdude-4.1.0/missing --run makeinfo
   -I .' \
   texi2dvi --pdf --batch `test -f 'avrdude.texi' || echo
   './'`avrdude.texi
   This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw (Web2C
   7.3.7)
   I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt'!
   /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.
   /usr/bin/texi2dvi: see avrdude.log for errors.
   make[2]: *** [avrdude.pdf] Error 1
   make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avrdude-4.1.0/doc'
   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avrdude-4.1.0'
   make: *** [all] Error 2
<<<

   I'll go back to my little AT2051 over the weekend, but having found
   GNU tools, the AVR features, and futurlec's AVR prices irresistible,
   I have no choice but to retool.

Avagoodweegend,
Erik