Bug#293562: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293562: octave2.1-doc: Provide a pdf version

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> [2005-02-21 16:02]:

> I think you mean pdf from texi.  I tried the following:
> 
>     (cd doc ; TEXINPUTS=".:./..::" texi2pdf octave.texi)
>     
> and the generated octave.pdf is perfect.  If nobody objects, I am going to
> replace the PS files by the PDF files in the octave2.1-doc package.
> 
> A suggestion for the upstream authors: you might include a rule for building
> octave.pdf in doc/Makefile.in, something like this:
> 
> octave.pdf: $(MAIN_TEXINFO) $(SUB_TEXINFO) ../conf.texi
>         -TEXINPUTS="$(srcdir):$(srcdir)/..:$(TEXINPUTS):"; \
>           export TEXINPUTS; \
>           texi2pdf $<

I meant "doc/interpreter" instead of "doc" in the above.
 
-- 
Rafael