Subj : The packages to install before building
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 05:41 pm

Hello Gerrit,

Thursday February 24 2022, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 GK>>> Any idea why it is actually needed? For makeinfo to produce pdf
 GK>>> documentation?

 MD>> Exactly.

 GK> What do the other platforms use?

You may see it in huskybse/INSTALL.asciidoc. For example, CentOS 7 uses the 146 Kb texinfo-tex package but the dependencies take up about 500 Mb. The texlive-full package on FreeBSD takes up 2 or 3 Gb, I don't remember exactly.

 GK> Any idea why just texinfo is not enough?

makinfo calls texi2dvi (or texi2any) and the latter wants tex.

Michael

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