Problem building Python 2.2 docs

Walter Moreira wall at adinet.com.uy
Tue Feb 12 10:35:49 EST 2002


On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:40:51PM -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> I just loaded a fresh Red Hat GNU/Linux 7.2 system on a newly
> formatted hard disc, and then installed Python 2.2 on it from the .tgz
> file.  Python 2.2 itself built and installed just fine.  When I typed
> "make" in the Doc directory though, a bunch of errors resulted, like:
> 
>      *** processing declarations ***
> 
>     Loading /usr/share/latex2html/versions/latin1.pl
> 
>      *** Fatal Error --- but easy to fix ***
> 
>     Cannot have '.' in file-name prefix, else dvips fails on images
>     Change the name from  /home/phr/Python-2.2/Doc/lib/lib.tex  and try again.
> 
>     *** Session transcript and error messages are in /home/phr/Python-2.2/Doc/html/lib/lib.how.
>     *** Exited with status 255.
> 

I could fix this by renaming the directory Python-2.2 to Python-2_2. Anyway, I
still cannot build the texinfo files. I'm waiting for the day that building
the docs doesn't need p*rl.

Walter




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