[l2h] Error building manual

[Roland Stigge]

Hi Ross,

thanks for your thoughts.

I solved the problem (packaging latex2html for Debian) by adding correct 
IMAGE_TYPE(S) settings at build-time (without already having latex2html 
installed).

Roland


Ross Moore wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> On 02/07/2009, at 6:21 AM, Roland Stigge wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> building the Latex2HTML manual, I get:
>>
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/latex2html-2008/docs'
>> ../latex2html -test_mode -no_math -html_version 4.0,math,frame 
>> -accent_images textrm -scalable_fonts -short_index -split 4 -link 5 
>> -no_auto_link -t "LaTeX2HTML" manual.tex;
>> $* is no longer supported at ../latex2html line 10591.
> 
> That looks like the kind of message that would be produced
> by a later version of Perl operating on coding written
> for an earlier version.
> 
> It should be easy to fix, once you know what it is that
> has changed. A Perl 4 manual should explain what kind
> of data or property $* was referring to.
> 
> However, I'd expect that there are many instances of this
> that will need to be similarly updated.
> 
>> Note: Loading ./.latex2html-init
>> Error: No such image type ''.
> 
> Not sure why this would happen.
> It might be a consequence of the earlier error,
> or it may be something different.
> The image-type array is meant to be an array of
> image-format suffixes; e.g.  'gif', 'png', 'jpg'.
> What is supported depends upon the availability of
>  Netpbm  conversion modules;  ppmtogif, pnmtopng, etc.
> 
> Maybe you don't have Netpbm installed ?
> 
> This whole aspect needs updating, as there are alternative
> image-generation techniques that could be supported instead.
> 
> Sorry, I don't have the time available to do this.
> 
>>        This installation supports (first is default):
>> make[2]: *** [fresh] Error 255
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/latex2html-2008/docs'
>> make[1]: *** [manual.html] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/latex2html-2008/docs'
>> make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
>>
>> Did this problem occur previously somewhere?
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>     Ross
> 
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Roland
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