[tex-live] Problems with make on i386-pc-solaris2.8
Thomas Esser
te@informatik.uni-hannover.de
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:39:37 +0200
> > to utils/texinfo/configure.ac. For t1utils, someone (me?) should do the
>
> Someone who insists on non-gnu-make-compability of the makefiles. :-)
>
> Sorry, I missed something. Is there something missing from
> texinfo/configure.ac for i386-solaris? I'm the Texinfo maintainer, so
> I'd like to know :).
The thing we are discussing is a non-standard feature which most software
packages do not support:
--enable-multiplatform
The implementation is as follows:
if test "x$enable_multiplatform" = xyes \
&& test "x$bindir" = 'x${exec_prefix}/bin'
then
enable_multiplatform=yes; export enable_multiplatform
bindir="$bindir/$host";
fi
This allows people to build teTeX / TeX Live easily for more then one
platform using a common mount point.
> The Texinfo stuff is intended to just be generic autoconf/automake, not
> requiring GNU make.
There is nothing wrong with texinfo. Its just that the adoption to the
teTeX / TeX Live setup requires a change. We also do not build the info
utility, because I have not yet found a way to make sure that an info
binary compiles on system A also works on system B.
One more annoying problem was, that I could not use automake / automake
to recreate the Makefile.in's:
Make: Don't know how to make install-info-am. Stop.
Did you use a modifies automake version?
> I just released a new version of Texinfo (4.2) a few days ago, don't
> know if that's made it into texlive yet.
I have integrated Texinfo (4.2) into teTeX and TeX Live the same day
that I have read the announce :-)
Thomas