[liquidwar-user] Re: Problem compiling liquid war 5.5.0

[Colin Stewart]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 02:27, Christian Mauduit wrote:
> > Building pdf/liquidwar.pdf...
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> > I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> > I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> Here we get a serious error. Basically your PDFLaTeX installation is
> broken. A few questions:
> - do you have pdflatex installed (it should exist in Debian)
> - do you have a pdflatex executanle on your computer
> - does the ./configure of LW say: "checking for PDF doc... enabled"
> - is PDFLaTeX usable on your computer in a more general manner? (*)
>     
Yes pdflatex is installed, but I think I've solved the problem.  It appears that you nee the package 'tetex-extra' on potato for this to work (see http://packages.debian.org/stable/tex/tetex-extra.html for the contents of the package).  I now get the output:

[...]
Underfull \vbox (badness 3826) has occurred while \output is active [55])
(copying.tex [56]
Chapter 13.
) [57] (liquidwar.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)<cmmi10.pfb><cmsy10.pfb><cm
tt10.pfb><cmsl10.pfb><cmbx10.pfb><cmbx12.pfb><cmr10.pfb><cmr12.pfb><cmr17.pfb>
Output written on liquidwar.pdf (57 pages, 186702 bytes).
Transcript written on liquidwar.log.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cms103/build/liquidwar-5.5.0/doc'

Build complete.
Type "make install" to install Liquid War 5.5.0.
> (*) this last point might be hard to check if you don't know TeX very
> well, so I'll forgive you if you can't answer 8-)
>
> What I believe is that you PDFLaTeX installation is broken. 
> The only check I make in the ./configure script is to check if the
> executable pdflatex is here. I should check it better but do not really
> know how to do it indeed. Otherwise I would have done it 8-}
>     
I think it's just going to take a check for the relevant file that is in the tetex-extra package - but I don't know enough to tell you which one it is!
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cms103/build/liquidwar-5.5.0/doc'
> > 
> > Build complete.
> > Type "make install" to install Liquid War 5.5.0.
> BTW, does "make install" succeed after this?
>     
Yes make install works - no warnings or errors.
> Thanks for your help, and have a nice day.
>
> Christian.
>
> PS: as a side note, there's a LW mailing list, which you might be
> interested in subscribing to. The discussion we are having could easily
> be followed there, and messages would be archived to that people can
> then dig them and find valuable informations 8-). But of course it's not
> mandatory, I'd understand that you don't wish to continuously get Liquid 
> War related stuff in your mailbox. Anyway, here's the URL:
> http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/liquidwar-user
>     
I'll subscribe for a little while!

Colin.