[fpc-devel] building pdf documentation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 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?

make pdf works fine here.

when you run fpcmake, you should run 
fpcmake -Tall

Michael.

>
>
> -----------------------
> $ 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.
> -----------------------
>
> I can run 'latex' and 'pdflatex' on my own .tex files without
> problems... See output below:
>
> -----------------------------
> $ latex test.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./test.aux) [1]
> (./test.aux) )
> Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 420 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.
>
>
> $ pdflatex test.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> No file test.aux.
> [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux)
> )</usr/shar
> e/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/font
> s/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr17.pfb>
> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10918 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.
> -----------------------------
>
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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