7:24 p.m.
Hi again,
I'm noticing that I cannot build from git without having a Latex
installation, when I want to also build the addons. In other words, the
regular gretl build skips Latex and pdf creation when the configure
option --enable-build-doc is _not_ given, but using
--enable-build-addons fails without Latex.
Not a big deal of course, but on a Debian test system I had to pull in
texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended,
texlive-latex-extra just because of that, which is easily 1GB in size.
thanks,
sven
11:29 p.m.
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi again,
I'm noticing that I cannot build from git without having a Latex
installation, when I want to also build the addons. In other words, the
regular gretl build skips Latex and pdf creation when the configure option
--enable-build-doc is _not_ given, but using --enable-build-addons fails
without Latex.
Not a big deal of course, but on a Debian test system I had to pull in
texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-latex-extra
just because of that, which is easily 1GB in size.
I think that's fair enough. We don't have any provision for building
addons that are supposed to include PDF documentation, minus that
documentation.
The dependencies for compiling LaTeX to PDF are admittedly quite
substantial, but (a) they're not as big as the dependencies for
building the full gretl PDF doc (which include XSLT support) and (b)
they're arguably part of the expected kit for an econometrician
these days.
Allin
8:19 a.m.
Am 28.01.2019 um 00:29 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
The dependencies for compiling LaTeX to PDF are admittedly quite
substantial, but (a) they're not as big as the dependencies for building
the full gretl PDF doc (which include XSLT support) and (b) they're
arguably part of the expected kit for an econometrician these days.
OK, no problem. At some point the necessary latex package might then
become part of what's pulled in by the "build-dep" variant of apt? But
only when addons are built by default, I guess.
thanks,
sven
8:10 p.m.
Am 28.01.2019 um 09:19 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
Am 28.01.2019 um 00:29 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
>
> The dependencies for compiling LaTeX to PDF are admittedly quite
> substantial, but (a) they're not as big as the dependencies for
> building the full gretl PDF doc (which include XSLT support) and (b)
> they're arguably part of the expected kit for an econometrician these
> days.
OK, no problem. At some point the necessary latex package might then
become part of what's pulled in by the "build-dep" variant of apt? But
only when addons are built by default, I guess.
I've stumbled over this problem again, namely pulling in everything with
'build-dep' wasn't enough to also build the addons. My suggestion is to
try to put the necessary requirements (3 texlive packages, see earlier
in this thread) into the build-dep list. I guess we would have to ask
the Debian package maintainer?
thanks
sven
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