Hello, I was able to install mdk 1.3.0 from the tarball. I was not able to install MDK from the current version in the Git repository. This is the protocol:
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/mdk.git $ cd mdk/ $ aclocal $ autoconf $ autoheader Successful up to here. $ automake --add-missing --copy configure.ac:52: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS configure.ac:52: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS configure.ac:52: error: required file './config.rpath' not found configure.ac:159: error: required file 'intl/Makefile.in' not found configure.ac:52: error: required file './ABOUT-NLS' not found The only file in [...]/mdk/intl is `.gitignore' (i.e., no `Makefile.am'). I wanted to generate the manual in PDF format. Using the dist. from the tarball, I got this error: $ make gendocs (cd ../doc && \ ./gendocs.sh --email bug-mdk@gnu.org mdk 'GNU MDK Users Manual') /bin/bash: line 1: ./gendocs.sh: No such file or directory make: *** [Makefile:989: gendocs] Error 127 Using the installation from the Git repository, I was able to generate `gendocs' but then I got this error: $ gendocs ./gendocs: cannot find .texinfo or .texi or .txi for in /home/laurence/mdk_local/git_repos/mdk/doc. I just used `texi2dvi mdk.tex' and `dvipdfmx mdk.dvi' to generate the PDF file. The following aren't bugs, but I then had to print to a file to get it into DIN A4 format and had to look for the page numbers to eliminate the blank page at the end and the COPYING section. Obviously, the COPYING section is needed but I think it would be a convenience to indicate how to eliminate it for printing purposes. I don't do this yet for my manuals, but I plan to. I do think it's important, however, to provide documentation in PDF format from the point of view of accessibility for people who, like me, have problems reading on computer screens. If you don't want to do that, it would be nice if you would consider at least providing rules for this in `[...]/doc/Makefile.am', because not everybody knows how to use Texinfo. Thanks. Laurence Finston