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ftilmann / latexdiff

Compares two latex files and marks up significant differences between them. Releases on www.ctan.org and mirrors
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'make install' is not portable #230

Closed dmacks closed 2 years ago

dmacks commented 3 years ago

Building latex-1.3.1.1 on OS X fails during the various 'make install...' recipes, for example:

make install-man INSTALLMANPATH=/sw/build.build/root-latexdiff-1.3.1.1-1/sw/share/man
install -m 644 -D -t /sw/build.build/root-latexdiff-1.3.1.1-1/sw/share/man/man1 latexrevise.1 latexdiff.1 latexdiff-vc.1
install: illegal option -- D
usage: install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 file2
       install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 ... fileN directory
       install -d [-v] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...
make: *** [Makefile:29: install-man] Error 64

Apple's BSDish install does not support the -D or -t flags. To improve portability, use a separate mkdir -p command, and use the pattern install [filenames] [directory] instead of an explicit directory flag earlier in the command.

dmacks commented 3 years ago

See for example the bulk of our patch in fink: https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/blob/b9153215a0e309388a9d31cd93b350f1ba176d8f/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/text/latexdiff.patch