[fpc-devel] building pdf documentation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Marco van de Voort het geskryf:
>>
>> Install fpc. The below error might indicate that FPC can't be found from
>> which it obtains platform and version.
>
> I have FPC installed, but on my new system (2 weeks old) I didn't have
> fpc in the PATH environment setup.
>
> After that, I got a bit futher, running the following command:
>
> make pdf FPCSRCDIR=/opt/fpc_2.3.1/src/
>
> Now for that could work it said that it couldn't find a4.sty.  I had to
> download another 270MB from apt repository to fullfill that
> dependency!!! That's 340MB downloaded so far just for LaTeX support on
> my system.

[snip]

>
> I'm sorry Michael.... give me OpenOffice Writer any time of the day!
> Plus it's a 170MB download which include the Java runtime environment
> and all ODT documents work.

I don't understand why you have so many problems. I did a standard ubuntu 
install, installed all of latex (there is a metapackage), and the docs 
compiled without a single glitch.

> [warning... more ranting]
> Maybe I should just drool over what is in the FPC latex docs and wait
> for the next PDF downloads from the freepascal.org website.
> [ranting stopped]
>
> Do we maybe have "pdf document snapshots" (like we have for FPC &
> Lazarus) one could download instead of jumping through all these LaTeX
> loops to try and compile the documents ourselves?

No we don't, and I don't plan to set it up.

Michael.