GNU bug report logs - #7994
make distcheck fails when latex is not installed

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Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch <at> gnu.org>
Subject: make distcheck fails when latex is not installed
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 23:20:01 +0100

In a package with a texinfo file, distcheck fails when LaTeX is not
installed.  Instead, it should exit 63(?).

The fact that distcheck runs 'make dvi' is not documented.

(From Jose; please correct me if I cited this wrongly now.)

Thanks,
Ralf
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 15 days ago.

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