On 5/16/06, Terry Younkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 5/15/06 5:24 PM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Terry Younkin wrote:
> > []
> >
> > For the record:
> >
> > With a correctly installed texi2html, you get /sw/bin/texi2html as a
> > symbolic link to /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html and this in turn as a
> > symbolic link to /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html. The latter is the binary
> > executable.
> >
> > The Finder should show /sw/bin/texi2html as an alias with original
> > /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html.
> >
>
> Thanks for the reply, Martin.
>
> Evidently, I do not have a correctly installed texi2html.  I have no
> /sw/bin/texi2html at all, although I do have a /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html
> which is an executable.  I do have /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html, but the
> Finder is unable to show the original, rather offering to "Fix" or "Delete"
> it when "Show Original" is chosen.
>
>
> > On the Terminal command line you see this as follows:
> >
> > $ ls -l /sw/bin/texi2html*
> > lrwxr-xr-x  [] /sw/bin/texi2html -> /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html
> > -rwxr-xr-x  [] /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html
>
> For that command I receive:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  141748 May 12 14:02 /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html
>
> >
> > $ ls -l /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html
> > lrwxr-xr-x  [] /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html -> /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html
>
> For this command, I receive:
>
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  28 Dec 13  2004 /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html
> -> /sw/bin/texi2html.tetex-base
>
> >
> > Or again as follows:
> >
> > $ file /sw/bin/texi2html*
> > /sw/bin/texi2html: symbolic link to `/sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html'
> > /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html: perl script text executable
>
> Here, I receive:
>
> /sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html: perl script text executable
>
> >
> > $ file /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html
> > /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html: symbolic link to
> > `/sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html'
>
> For this command I receive:
>
> /sw/etc/alternatives/texi2html: broken symbolic link to
> `/sw/bin/texi2html.tetex-base'
>
> >
> > If you see anything else, then your texi2html is not correctly installed.
>
> Evidently, texi2html is incorrectly installed.  I have attempted to remove,
> and then reinstall, numerous times in the last few days.  Apparently, these
> attempts have also failed.  Are there any suggestions regarding how to
> proceed now?
>

Did you try to _rebuild_ it or _reinstall_ it?  If the latter then
it's not too suprising that it didn't work.  If it got misbuilt, then
you're just unpacking the same broken setup.

If it didn't work after rebuild+reinstall, then there's something
wrong that for some reason didn't stop the build, and we should
probably look at that build process.

As a workaround, you can install the version from the binary
distribution (command-line required):

sudo apt-get install texi2html=1.64-14

Then update autoconf2.5 by itself.  After that you can update everything else.

> >
> >> Okay, Alexander, I tried it.  First, I received a message that "There is
> >> only 1 program which provides texi2html (/sw/bin/texi2html.texi2html).
> >> Nothing to configure."
> >
> > This is the expected message, and if the symbolic link /sw/bin/texi2html
> > was absent before, as you said it was in your case, then it should now
> > be restored. Did you look?
>
> I did indeed look, and it is not there.  It was present when I first started
> my updates, however, the Finder could not find the original.  It has not
> reappeared since the first un-install/re-install.
>
>
>
>


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