8:43 p.m.
Hi,
compiling gretl from cvs almost always works fine for me, but it seems
that often (always?) I don't get the current manual, at least not from
clicking the menu entry in the help menu. Instead I seem to get an older
version. My ./configure switch is simply --enable-build-doc.
Actually it might be that a similar thing happened to me on windows,
too, but I'm not sure right now. I also think I remember that someone
had a problem where the manual wasn't available at all, I don't know if
that's related.
Of course all this is not terribly important, and that's why I have been
ignoring the problem for months, but eventually it would be nice if it
could work. Any hints or ideas?
Thanks,
Sven
8:49 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
compiling gretl from cvs almost always works fine for me, but it
seems that often (always?) I don't get the current manual, at
least not from clicking the menu entry in the help menu. Instead
I seem to get an older version. My ./configure switch is simply
--enable-build-doc.
Is it the PDF manual you're talking about, or the "online" one --
or both?
Allin.
8:57 p.m.
Am 26.08.2008 22:49, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> compiling gretl from cvs almost always works fine for me, but it
> seems that often (always?) I don't get the current manual, at
> least not from clicking the menu entry in the help menu. Instead
> I seem to get an older version. My ./configure switch is simply
> --enable-build-doc.
Is it the PDF manual you're talking about, or the "online" one --
or both?
I'm talking about PDF; can't really tell for sure whether the text
format thing is affected, but I doubt it.
-sven
10:56 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
compiling gretl from cvs almost always works fine for me, but it
seems that often (always?) I don't get the current [PDF] manual,
at least not from clicking the menu entry in the help menu.
Instead I seem to get an older version. My ./configure switch is
simply --enable-build-doc.
OK, this is a bit of a fudge. I took the view some time ago that
people building gretl from CVS might run into trouble building the
PDF manuals from TeX source. One potential problem -- to do with
the proprietary Lucida fonts which I use for compiling the
packaged version of the manual -- is now solved, so perhaps this
needs to be revisited.
Anyway, the deal is that if you do a top-level "make install" the
PDF manual files are installed... only if they have been built.
And they are not built by a standard top-level "make" -- to build
them have to do an explicit "make" in the doc subdirectory (or
perhaps better, in the doc/tex (or doc/tex_it) subdirectory).
The rationale was to prevent the whole "make" process from bombing
out just due to problems with pdflatex.
There's one other thing: right now, the top-level "make install"
only installs the 'basic' gretl-ref.pdf and gretl-guide.pdf. So
if your preferences are set to view the A4-formatted versions,
that will require manual installation. Maybe this should be
changed too.
Allin.
8:47 a.m.
Am 27.08.2008 00:56, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> compiling gretl from cvs almost always works fine for me, but it
> seems that often (always?) I don't get the current [PDF] manual,
> at least not from clicking the menu entry in the help menu.
> Instead I seem to get an older version. My ./configure switch is
> simply --enable-build-doc.
OK, this is a bit of a fudge. I took the view some time ago that
people building gretl from CVS might run into trouble building the
PDF manuals from TeX source. One potential problem -- to do with
the proprietary Lucida fonts which I use for compiling the
packaged version of the manual -- is now solved, so perhaps this
needs to be revisited.
Anyway, the deal is that if you do a top-level "make install" the
PDF manual files are installed... only if they have been built.
And they are not built by a standard top-level "make" -- to build
them have to do an explicit "make" in the doc subdirectory (or
perhaps better, in the doc/tex (or doc/tex_it) subdirectory).
good to know...
The rationale was to prevent the whole "make" process from bombing
out just due to problems with pdflatex.
But isn't that what the --enable-build-doc is for? I would expect that
if you do 'make' w/o building the docs then latex doesn't enter the
equation.
There's one other thing: right now, the top-level "make install"
only installs the 'basic' gretl-ref.pdf and gretl-guide.pdf. So
if your preferences are set to view the A4-formatted versions,
that will require manual installation. Maybe this should be
changed too.
Could this also affect the windows snapshots? As I said, I'm not sure,
but I vaguely remember similar problems on Windows. And my prefs are
indeed set to a4, as in most parts of the world ;-)
thanks,
sven
12:15 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 27.08.2008 00:56, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> Anyway, the deal is that if you do a top-level "make install" the
> PDF manual files are installed... only if they have been built.
> And they are not built by a standard top-level "make" -- to build
> them have to do an explicit "make" in the doc subdirectory (or
> perhaps better, in the doc/tex (or doc/tex_it) subdirectory).
good to know...
>
> The rationale was to prevent the whole "make" process from bombing
> out just due to problems with pdflatex.
But isn't that what the --enable-build-doc is for? I would expect that
if you do 'make' w/o building the docs then latex doesn't enter the
equation.
The main intent with --enable-build-doc was to enable building of
the help files. That is (or was) somewhat less demanding than
building the PDF files. I used to think of building the PDF as a
truly "expert" operation, but now that TeXLive is commmon and
the Lucida fonts are not enabled by default that may no longer be
true.
> There's one other thing: right now, the top-level "make
> install" only installs the 'basic' gretl-ref.pdf and
> gretl-guide.pdf. So if your preferences are set to view the
> A4-formatted versions, that will require manual installation.
> Maybe this should be changed too.
Could this also affect the windows snapshots? As I said, I'm not
sure, but I vaguely remember similar problems on Windows. And my
prefs are indeed set to a4, as in most parts of the world ;-)
Good point. The snapshot always ships with the latest
US letter-format PDF files, but that probably needs re-thinking.
Allin.
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