Re: [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates in Makefile and FAQ-BUILD.txt

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 01:14:24PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >From 9a745e15ae38e8cfc329a365f2ff28112a19a5c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 12:31:27 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates in Makefile and FAQ-BUILD.txt
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> This patch set is the result of trying Ubuntu Bionic to build
> perfbook.
> 
> One major issue is the incompatibility of a2ping 2.77p and
> Ghostscript 9.22. You need a2ping 2.83p which is upstream at
> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/a2ping.
> 
> a2ping is basically a perl script, so you can easily use the latest
> one by putting it in your local bin directory.
> 
> Other changes in this set are fixes and modifications I made while
> testing on Ubuntu Bionic. The updated Makefile is tested on
> Ubuntu Trusty, Ubuntu Xenial, Ubuntu Bionic, Fedora 26, and Fedora 27.
> 
> Patch #1 updates message of "make help".
> Patch #2 adds entry on a2ping compatibility issue in FAQ-BUILD.txt.
> Patch #3 adds note on Ubuntu Bionic.
> Patch #4 employs "latexpand" of TeX Live instead of "texexpand".
> This frees us from dependency on latex2html package.
> 
> Patch #5 updates FAQ-BUILD.txt accordingly.

Very nice!!!  Applied and pushed, thank you!!!

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira
> --
> Akira Yokosawa (5):
>   Makefile: Update help message
>   FAQ-BUILD: Add entry on compatibility of a2ping and Ghostscript
>   FAQ-BUILD: Add note on Ubuntu Bionic
>   Makefile: Use latexpand instead of texexpand
>   FAQ-BUILD: Remove latex2html in package list
> 
>  FAQ-BUILD.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  Makefile      | 12 ++++++------
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
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