[tlbuild] building TL on SuSE fails

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sun, 2 May 2010, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Do you have a libfontconfig-dev package (or whatever that's called on
> SuSE) installed?  Does configure find fontconfig?  It looks like that must
> be missing - which ought really to be a configure-time error, I suppose,
> rather than proceeding to compile a bunch of stuff and then failing to
> link.

Hi Jonathan,

absolutely right, and I suspect something funny happend earlier (see below).

> On 2 May 2010, at 12:13, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> you don't need to consider this too seriously (it should not be a
>> showstopper since you already compile on another flavour of linux
>> anyway). When I try to build TL on SuSE 8.0 (or 8.2, not sure), I get
>> the following error:
>>
>> Making all in tests
>> make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/home/gardener/soft/tlsource/source/texk/xdvik/tests'
>> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/gardener/soft/tlsource/source/texk/xdvik/tests'
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gardener/soft/tlsource/source/texk/xdvik'
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gardener/soft/tlsource/source/texk/xdvik'
>> Making all in xdvipdfmx
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gardener/soft/tlsource/source/texk/xdvipdfmx'
>> make  all-recursive

Hi Mojca,

this looks strange!  The expected sequence of events is this
   make in texk/xdvik
   configure texk/xdvipdfmx
   make in texk/xdvipdfmx
but I don't see the configure in texk/xdvipdfmx.

Thus I suspect that the configure in texk/xdvipdfmx originally failed, but
nevertheless created a Makefile, and you then once again did 'make'.  Can
you tell us exactly by what sequence of events you arrived at the result
shown above.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>