Re: configure can't find doc/Makefile.in

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Friday 17 December 2010, Adrienne Thompson wrote:
> 
> >> Stefano and friends:
> >>
> >> I've spotted the problem. I forgot to include "doc" in the top
> >> Makefile.am in the SUBDIRS list.
> >>
> > I can confirm this is indeed the issue, and that it causes failures
> > also with automake 1.10.3 and automake 1.9.6.
> >
> > Glad you solved your problem, BTW.
> >
> 
> Thank you Stefano. I wouldn't have solved it so quickly, however, had 
> you not suggested that I post the contents of my makefiles etc- so 
> thanks again.:-)
> 
> About the dvi errors, "make" seems to need to find TEX.
>
Yes, that's required to make dvi, ps and pdf from texinfo inputs.

> I downloaded TEX yesterday, but it's so huge I've been contemplating
> uninstalling and haven't yet set my $PATH.
>
My suggestion is to install it from the Debian packages.  For me,
that has always worked like a charm.

> I thought all texinfo needed was texinfo.tex, which is in my
> build-aux directory.
>
Nope, that file just defines the (extensive) set of TeX macros
required to handle texinfo files.

Regards,
   Stefano