Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got the tarball for guile-1.6.8 and ran configure at the top level. I > did this solely to get the documentation. > > When I do make pdf from the top, I get (excerpt) > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc' > Making pdf in ref > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc/ref' > GUILE="/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile" > ../../scripts/snarf-guile-m4-docs ../../guile-config/guile.m4 > autoconf-macros.texi > /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile: line > 83: /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/libguile/guile: No such file or > directory > /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/pre-inst-guile: line 83: > exec: /usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/libguile/guile: cannot execute: > No such file or directory > make[2]: *** [autoconf-macros.texi] Error 126 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/tools/guile-1.6.8/doc/ref' > > It looks as if maybe some other stuff needs to be built first, and the > Makefile isn't picking up on it.
That's correct. It's currently the case that you need to run a plain "make" first. Are you in a position to do that? > I posted this to guile-user a few days ago. Someone sent me prebuilt > docs (for 1.8 actually, which isn't the one I'm using), along with the > information that they built their docs on MS-Windows and could not build > them under Linux. That's been the only response, so I figured this > might be a real bug and am filing this report. Thanks; we appreciate your report. Given that there is an easy workaround, though, how important is this for you? > I'm a bit surprised you don't have people enter bugs in the bug tracker; > the BUGS file said to send an email like this. I agree that it is unusual not to use a tracker these days, but [email protected] is still for now our primary mechanism for reporting and dealing with bug reports. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile
