On Dec 16, 2007 9:31 PM, gri6507 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm new to SAGE and to this support group so I hope I am asking the
> right question in the right area. I am trying to package SAGE v2.9 for
> PCLinuxOS (an up-and-coming Linux distribution). My first question is
> actually a problem I ran into when trying to make PDF documentation.
>
> After changing directories to devel/doc I ran make PDF. This
> complained at me that some python module was not available. So, I
> changed the Makefile to use sage-python instead of the default python.
> This made the documentation build process go a lot farther, but it
> still failed with the following error. I'm not too familiar with
> makeindex, so I don't understand the error. Can someone please guide
> me along here? Thanks in advance!

To make the pdf of const.tex, you can cd to sage-2*/devel/doc/const
and type build_pdf. This sets the environment variables properly.


>
> P.S. on a side note, does anyone know where I can find an SRPM or just
> a SPEC file for SAGE from some other distribution (Mandriva or RedHat
> perhaps?)
>
> make pdf
> cd paper-letter && TEXINPUTS=/home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/
> devel/doc-main/commontex: sage-python /home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/
> sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/tools/mkhowto --paper=letter --pdf ../ref/
> ref.tex
> +++ TEXINPUTS=/home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/ref:/
> home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/commontex:/home/
> gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/paper-letter:/home/
> gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/texinputs:
> +++ pdflatex ref
> +++ makeindex ref.idx
> +++ pdflatex ref
> +++ makeindex -s /home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/
> texinputs/python.ist ref.idx
> *** Session transcript and error messages are in /home/gri6507/src/rpm/
> BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/paper-letter/ref.how.
> *** Exited with status 1.
> The relevant lines from the transcript are:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +++ makeindex -s /home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/
> texinputs/python.ist ref.idx
> Style file /home/gri6507/src/rpm/BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/
> texinputs/python.ist too long.
> Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0
> idx1 ...]
> *** Session transcript and error messages are in /home/gri6507/src/rpm/
> BUILD/sage-2.9/devel/doc-main/paper-letter/ref.how.
> *** Exited with status 1.
> make: *** [paper-letter/ref.pdf] Error 1
>
> >
>

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