[wplug] LaTeX, latex2html, perl

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On my MacOSX system, make is /usr/bin/make.  If it is not there, you 
have problems.  I think that 'make' is part of the core install, but it 
might require you install the developer's tools.


On Saturday, Aug 2, 2003, at 20:40 America/New_York, Doug Green wrote:

> Hi all-
> I am trying to manually install the latex2html package. I am running 
> Mac OS X, and Fink is not really an option because I have gcc3.3 and 
> Fink chokes on it. I have downloaded the g'zipped tarball of 
> latex2html, I have perl, and I already RTFM'd.
> When I ./configure, it modifies "Makefile", but I cannot run "make". 
> The specific error I get is:
>
> make: command not found
>
> So, I tried "./make", but then realized that there was no "./make" to 
> be found at all! The output of ./configure lives in a file called 
> "./cfgcache.pm" which is not very informative. Here are the last 
> couple lines of output from the configure (which looks like everything 
> is fine to me).
>
> checking for temporary disk space... /tmp
> creating cfgcache.pm
> Note: Will install...
>       ... executables to   : /usr/local/bin
>       ... shared library items to : /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html
>       ... unshared library items to : /usr/local/lib/latex2html
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> If everything went well,  you may run 'make'
>
> Does anyone have any experience installing latex2html from a tarball, 
> or can anyone suggest why I have no make file? Seems like it's choking 
> in the configure, but don't see anything that looks bad. Any other 
> ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
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