GNU bug report logs - #26604
documentation: pdf generation is broken

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net>

Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
To: ng0 <contact.ng0 <at> cryptolab.net>
Cc: 26604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26604: documentation: pdf generation is broken
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:14:56 -0700

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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

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