[fpc-devel] building pdf documentation

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Sep 9 15:33:29 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> I read the readme.txt file in the fpcdocs checked out files. Is says to
> make PDF documentation I need to run 'make pdf'.  Below is my attempt --
> which failed. :-(   Any hints on the magic key combination?

Install fpc. The below error might indicate that FPC can't be found from
which it obtains platform and version.
> 
> -----------------------
> $ cd /opt/fpcdocs_svn
> $ make pdf
> Makefile:198: *** The Makefile doesn't support target can't-executed,,
> please run fpcmake first.  Stop.
> $ fpcmake
> Processing Makefile.fpc
>  x86_64-linux requires:
>  Writing Makefile
> $ make pdf
> Makefile:198: *** The Makefile doesn't support target can't-executed,,
> please run fpcmake first.  Stop.
> -----------------------

Something which can be fairly easily seen by checking out line 198 in the
makefile btw.
 



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