Re: [Gcl-devel] Building gcl-2.6.8

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your report!

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems that building gcl-2.6.8 requires pdflatex. I have
> tried version from June 12 and build failed due to
> missing pdflatex:

What is the preferred dependency for creating pdf documentation?

Take care,

>
>>mkdir -p dwdoc && \
>         cd dwdoc && \
>         echo '(load "../sysdef.lisp")(in-package :xlib)(defmacro while (test 
> &rest forms) `(loop (unless ,test (return)) ,@forms))(load 
> "../gcl_tohtml.lsp")(load "../gcl_index.lsp")(tohtml "../dwdoc.tex" 
> "dwdoc")(with-open-file (s "dwdoccontents.html" :direction :output) (let 
> ((*standard-output* s)) (xlib::makecont "../dwdoc.tex" 1 
> "dwdoc")))(with-open-file (s "dwdocindex.html" :direction :output) (let 
> ((*standard-output* s)) (xlib::printindex indexdata "dwdoc")))' | 
> ../../unixport/saved_pre_gcl
> GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.8 CLtL1    Jun 13 2013 17:05:33
> <snip>
> XLIB>pdflatex dwdoc.tex
> make[1]: pdflatex: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [dwdoc.pdf] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lv0/fricas/axp8/gcl-build/gcl-2.6.8/xgcl-2'
> make: *** [unixport/saved_gcl] Error 2

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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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