[20709] in Athena Bugs
Re: latex2html in the infoagents locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Sep 12 12:42:07 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:42:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Stephen Gildea <gildea@MIT.EDU>
cc: Nick White <nickw@MIT.EDU>, <bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU>
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Wait, wait, never mind. These programs are in the graphics locker, which
is where I expected them to be in the first place - should have trusted my
instincts. I mistakenly assumed that if configure couldn't find them,
'which' couldn't find them either. Now I will poke configure with a pointy
stick until it gets with the program. Sorry about that.
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, t. belton wrote:
> The problem is not the lockers - at least, attaching them didn't seem to
> make a difference. I need to tell the configure how to manually find
> something, and not being a LaTeX user I am not clear on where that lives.
>
> checking for pnmcrop... no
> Warning: Will not be able to generate images due to above failure.
> checking for pnmflip... no
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> ./config/config.pl line 2390.
> Warning: You may need to rely on LaTeX to generate images with effects.
> checking for ppmquant... no
> checking for pnmfile... no
> checking for pnmcat... no
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> ./config/config.pl line 2390.
> Warning: You may need to rely on LaTeX to generate images with effects.
> checking for pbmmake... no
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> ./config/config.pl line 2390.
> Warning: You may need to rely on LaTeX to generate images with effects.
> checking for ppmtogif... no
> checking for ppm2gif... no
> checking for pnmtopng... no
> checking for pnm2png... no
> checking for ppmtojpeg... no
>
> There are about twenty more checks for image conversion utilities, either
> to or from ppm or pnm, and except for a few which happen to be in
> /usr/openwin/bin (i.e. Solaris strays) none of them are found. This is why
> it can't handle images.
>
> I realize it looks bad for the locker maintainer to be asking the user for
> advice; you can feel free to tease me the next time we run into each
> other at one of Eric's parties :) Meanwhile, any idea where I should point
> it to get these utilities?
>
> - Todd
>
>
>
