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The FORM project for symbolic manipulation of very big expressions
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I can't build doc manual in cygwin #383

Open FeelUsM opened 3 years ago

FeelUsM commented 3 years ago

in directory form/doc/manual:

$ make html
/bin/sh "../../scripts/git-version-gen.sh" -C "." -t -o version.tex --date-format '%e %B %Y'
mkdir -p html
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/htlatex manual "html,mathml-" "" "-dhtml/"
/bin/sh: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:541: html/manual.html] Error 127

/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/htlatex must be enclosed in quotation marks

I don't know, may be it is autotools' error, but it's worth checking out

tueda commented 3 years ago

/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/htlatex manual "html,mathml-" "" "-dhtml/"

Here you are running htlatex installed on Windows, which causes a space in the path name. Maybe you need htlatex installed via the Cygwin installer.

tueda commented 3 years ago

The problem comes from the fact that AC_PATH_PROG may return a path including spaces (according to this post) without quotes. AC_PATH_PROG is used in

https://github.com/vermaseren/form/blob/b0e72a834eb5d1d057e91202201ff21013838be4/configure.ac#L934

As a workaround, in principle, it is possible to quote $(HTLATEX) at

https://github.com/vermaseren/form/blob/b0e72a834eb5d1d057e91202201ff21013838be4/doc/manual/Makefile.am#L109

But then we might start to think of all similar usages in Makefiles $(LATEX), $(RUBY), $(CC) etc., many things...