Hi Guys, For some time now on my Gentoo latop I have been receiving this error when I do make install. I have done make realclean and manually deleted all configure data but I cannot figure why the problem is happening. As can be seen below, I did have perl 5.8.6 some time ago but I now use 5.8.7 and as can be seen, there is no "perl5.8.6" file. I presume it finds I have had v5.8.6 in the past and is just appending that to perl to get perl5.8.6 but then not checking if that file exists.
I know it would not be easy to do but it is a pity that when configure finds file version numbers it cannot start high and move lower to find what the real highest version number is rather than starting low and finding the oldest number. *** processing declarations *** Starting at 1140052222 seconds OPENING /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual.htex Note: Working directory is /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual Note: Images will be generated in /tmp/l2h8634 Debug (syswait): Running "/usr/bin/perl5.8.6 /usr/lib/latex2html/texexpand.pl -debug -auto_exclude -save_styles /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual/TMP/styles -texinputs /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual -out /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual/TMP/Manual /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual.htex" at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 779 Fatal (syswait): exec "/usr/bin/perl5.8.6 /usr/lib/latex2html/texexpand.pl -debug -auto_exclude -save_styles /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual/TMP/styles -texinputs /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual -out /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual/TMP/Manual /home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual/Manual.htex" failed: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 779 Debug (syswait): Finished child process: #8643 at /usr/lib/latex2html/latex2html.pl line 779 texexpand failed: No such file or directory Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/latex2html line 39. make[3]: *** [wxhelp.map] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc/Manual' make[2]: *** [Manual.dir] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mlivingstone/projects/M/build/doc' make: *** [install_doc] Error 2 constellation build # locate perl5.8.6 constellation build # locate perl5.8.7 /usr/bin/perl5.8.7 constellation build # locate 5.8.6 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r5 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r7 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r8 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1 /usr/share/doc/libperl-5.8.7/Changes5.8.6.gz /usr/share/doc/perl-5.8.7-r3/Changes5.8.6.gz /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r8 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r5 /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r7 /usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl/libperl-5.8.6.ebuild /usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl/files/digest-libperl-5.8.6-r1 /usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl/files/digest-libperl-5.8.6 /usr/portage/sys-devel/libperl/libperl-5.8.6-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/digest-perl-5.8.6-r5 /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/digest-perl-5.8.6-r6 /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/digest-perl-5.8.6-r7 /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/digest-perl-5.8.6-r8 /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-5.8.6-tempfiles.patch /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.6-r5.ebuild /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.6-r6.ebuild /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.6-r7.ebuild /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.6-r8.ebuild constellation build # ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list Mahogany-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers