Re: Test release: 5.6.2-test-3

[dana <dana@xxxxxxx>]

On 6 Jan 2019, at 09:12, Jun T. <takimoto-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Are you having problems while trying to install yodl?
>Or yodl has been successfully installed but still
>can't generate PDF?

I've got yodl — cherry-picked from MacPorts, since Homebrew doesn't have it.
Building the man/HTML pages with that is no problem once i've got it.

For the PDF, i needed TeX, which the normal Homebrew repo also doesn't have i
guess because it's similarly complicated to build on macOS. Homebrew Cask has
the MacTeX distribution, but the full thing is over 3 GiB, which is silly. I
found the 'basic' distribution, though, and then i needed to manually install
the texinfo thing for it, and after all that i thought i'd be OK, but
apparently TeX needs X11 to generate the PDF for some reason (font stuff, i
assume).

On balance, X11 is probably smaller and easier to install than TeX. Still, it
felt excessive.

dana