[Slackbuilds-users] pstoedit

[Jim]

On Sat, Oct  3, 2026 at 18:50 (-0400), B. Watson wrote:



> On Sat, 3 Oct 2026, Jim via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/SBo/pstoedit-4.3/src'
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/SBo/pstoedit-4.3/src'
>> Making all in doc
>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'pstoedit.1', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/SBo/pstoedit-4.3/doc'
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/SBo/pstoedit-4.3/doc'
>> make: *** [Makefile:415: all-recursive] Error 1

>> Is this a "me" problem?  Or are other people having this issue?

> Did you skip the T series when installing Slackware? It looks
> like it's using texlive to generate the man page.

Thanks for that.  I wish I had read your email 10 minutes earlier before I
figured it out myself.

No, I don't have the T series installed.  Instead, I have TeXlive
installed, so the T series is mostly(!) redundant.  And TL is not in root's
PATH, thus pdflatex is not found when configure is configuring.

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   Yes, I know I am supposed to have everything installed for Slackbuilds
   to work, but this is the first time I've ever run into this problem.
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Having said that, I see that if configure doesn't find pdflatex, in the
generated doc/Makefile it comments out the part which creates the man page
from the LaTeX source (this makes sense).  However, the doc/Makefile
nonetheless cheerfully insists that pstoedit.1 must exist.  This was OK in
the previous version, where a pstoedit.1 file was included in the dist
file, but it isn't really so good without it, as in the current version.

I could argue that this is a bug in the pstoedit source package, but I'm
not sure I want to spend time convincing someone that this is a problem.

I thought I'd send this explanation to this list in case there is some
other person in the world who didn't install the T series.

Cheers.

                                        Jim