Re: [Xen-users] Compile Xen

[Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:38, Andreas Seuss wrote:

> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/xen/xen-2.0-testing.hg/docs'
> latex src/interface.tex >/dev/null
>
> Won't do anything although latex and transfig are installed. I have to
> kill 'latex'. It just sits idle. Xen itself works perfectly though ;-)
>
> A 'top -p "latex-process-id" ' shows no use of cpu:
>
> PID    USER   PR NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME  COMMAND
> 19401 root      18   0 16768 4028  692 S    0.0       6.8    0:00.02
> latex

in that case latex is probably waiting on user input on how to deal with a 
missing package. 
Since latex ocasionally wants user interaction, redirecting its output 
to /dev/null generally seems like a bad idea.

Probably the Makefile should use "latex -interaction=batchmode" or similar 
instead

/Ernst

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