[frogs] Re: should 'make web' take several attempts?

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Good news, I got the docs built!
(I was missing a TeX package.)

AH

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Graham Percival
<graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 05:29:09PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> On 4/11/09 5:21 PM, "Andrew Hawryluk" <ahawryluk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to build the docs, and I get "pdfetex exited with bad
>> > status, quitting" errors. However, each time I reattempt it, it seems
>> > to get further along before quitting. Does a full doc build from
>> > scratch require numerous build attempts, in a similar way that LaTeX
>> > must be run twice to get its cross-references correct?
>>
>> No, once should do it.
>
> To add to this: if you've modified the docs and they now require
> multiple runs, then you broke something.
>
> If this is your first time building the docs, then you're probably
> missing some requiement... hmm, maybe the utf-8 fonts?  I always
> need to fumble around to find the right packages to install in
> Linux; I end up looking at the package suggestions in
> input/regression/utf-8.ly
>
> Every time, I make a mental note to update the INSTALL file to
> match whatever was in utf-8.ly, but I always forget before I
> actually do it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>

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