Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements

[Rob Brown]

Hello,

I will admit to being a "noob" and had quite a few problems installing 
avrdude because Tex wasn't right.

On Mac OS X many people use Fink to install things. The version of Tex 
from Fink didn't work correctly when make-ing avrdude. Fink also 
installs tons of unnecessary stuff alongside Tex. The solution was to 
install "texi2html" manually from the version at the Darwin project.

So on balance I would rather see the documentation from the install be 
slimmed down. Fink is good for many things, but not for installing the 
avr-toolchain.

Since this my first post here, I would like to say it's excellent to be 
doing some embedded software on Mac OS X.

R.B.

> Many projects confine the large-scale documents to only be
> built when the tools are available. This can be checked
> in configure.ac and flags set. Additionally, they often
> only do those docs with "make docs/dvi/ps/pdf/info".
>
> I'd hate to see detail lost just because a few noobs can't
> install the right packages.