On 5/16/06 12:30 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps I've thrown those terms around, rebuild and reinstall, a bit too
loosely. However, I have done both rebuild *and* reinstall. Further, I
have tried the binary distribution, but there was no change in the
situation.
I did run the command you suggested, and ignoring the downgrading warning, I
did install the 1.64-14 version. The results of this was another failure of
autoconf2.5 to install.
Next, I tried updating texi2html (which succeeded), and then updating
autoconf2.5; this failed. Then, I tried rebuild autoconf2.5. This also
failed.
>
>>>
>>>> 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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