Xapian discuss - Oct 2006 - make error

Hello.

I'm on FC5 and was trying to build xapian from svn. As a result i get
following error:

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cd apidoc/latex && (pool_size=750000 make refman.ps||pool_size=750000
make refman.ps)
make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core/docs/apidoc/latex'
echo "Running latex..."
Running latex...
/usr/bin/latex refman.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./refman.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.

make[4]: *** [refman.dvi] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core/docs/apidoc/latex'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core/docs/apidoc/latex'
echo "Running latex..."
Running latex...
/usr/bin/latex refman.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./refman.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.

make[4]: *** [refman.dvi] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core/docs/apidoc/latex'
make[3]: *** [apidoc.ps] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core/docs'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/alienoid/write/ir/xapian/BUILD/xapian-core'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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I found in makefiles note that 'make refman.ps' may unexpectedly fail
during first pass, but continuous 'make' runs do not help either.

I did an ugly hack to make it going further to end compilation, but is
there something that i missed?

Regards,
Ruslan

> I did an ugly hack to make it going further to end compilation, but is
> there something that i missed?
I had the same difficulty with refman.ps, and did the same type of
workaround. This was compiling from SVN on Debian several weeks
ago. So whatever it is, it's probably not redhat specific.

-Jeff