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documentation: pdf generation is broken

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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
To: 26604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26604: documentation: pdf generation is broken
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:42:37 -0700

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ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz writes:

> Chris Marusich transcribed 1.7K bytes:
>> ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net> writes:
>> 
>> > As long as I run guix I was never able to build the documentation
>> > as pdf. What's wrong with it?
>> >
>> > [user <at> abyayala ~/src/guix/guix]$ make doc/guix.pdf
>> >   TEXI2PDF doc/guix.pdf
>> >   /gnu/store/jz7jq4w8d4czvgnk9as07rrdbcfjjgjj-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.
>> >   make: *** [Makefile:3591: doc/guix.pdf] Error 1
>> 
>> I looked into this a week or two ago.  I think we're waiting for a newer
>> release of automake?  Perhaps John Darrington knows more.  See this
>> email thread, which I found at the time and seems to contain the
>> relevant information:
>> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg01074.html
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chris
>
> Oh, right… I've seen this scroll by some time ago.
> Okay, since there is no associated open bug (at least with the
> obvious keywords), I'll leave this bug open and once
> the .pdf generates again it can be closed.

Sounds good.  I guess I should have opened up a bug report myself.
Thank you for doing it!

-- 
Chris

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