Re: texi2dvi error in make

[Jon Vyse]

Robert J Goedman <goedman <at> icloud.com> writes:

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> Hi Frederic,
> Thank you for the answer. I'll play around with it a bit more, but as you
state, the error is not affecting the usage of the package.
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> Regards,
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> Rob J. Goedman
> goedman <at> icloud.com
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> On May 13, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Frederic Bois <frederic.bois <at> utc.fr> wrote:
> Hi,I don't know, I don't get it and I see nothing wrong with the command
given.Building the doc automatically is more problems that I imagined for
automake...In any case, the doc is made last; so if it fails it's no big
deal. The compiled doc is in the distributed packageanyway and you don't
even need to redo it. If you want the info file installed, the best is then
todo "install-info mcsim.info" yourself.Sorry about that. Maybe I should
remove the troubled makefile from the doc directory...Frederic BoisOn
10/05/2013 19:21, Robert J Goedman wrote:Hi,To install mcsim-5.5.0 I'm using
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34 on Mac OSX 10.8 and get below error
message.I wonder if there is a workaround for that.Rob J. Goedmangoedman
<at> icloud.com...libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libmcsim.alibtool: link: ( cd
".libs" && rm -f "libmcsim.la" && ln -s "../libmcsim.la" "libmcsim.la"
)Making all in docTEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" \    MAKEINFO='/bin/sh
/Users/rob/Projects/mcsim-5.5.0/missing makeinfo   -I .' \      texi2dvi
 --build-dir=mcsim.t2d -o mcsim.dvi  \  mcsim.texinfo/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Can't
use option `--output' with more than one argument.make[2]: *** [mcsim.dvi]
Error 2make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1make: *** [all] Error
2robs-15inch-2:mcsim-5.5.0 rob$
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You need a version of texi2dvi which supports the --build-dir option,
texinfo package version 4.9 or above. The error message is misleading,
the problem is your texi2dvi version does not support the --build-dir option
but the texi2dvi error message is reporting a problem with the -o option. I
was using automake-1.13 and texinfo-4.8 when I came across the
problem.

Yours
Jon