David, On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:29:23 +0100, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Karl Lindén <karl.j.lin...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I found that installing the pdflatex program fixes the issue, but the > > failure is hardly user-friendly. Instead the build system should say > > something along the lines: "pdflatex was not found. Please install it > > and reconfigure before running make top-doc". > > I thought our default idea was to use xelatex? Xelatex is optional. If you have it installed make will use that, else if not you get a 'warning' during the .configure and PDFlatex (or whatever the standard requirement is) will be used instead. As to what Karl has commented on, I believe that the .configure output WILL post a warning. Karl note that you can still compile LilyPond without PDFlatex, you just cannot compile the docs (and the reg tests). James _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
