make errors - help

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Hi,

I'm not sure what's going wrong, but it's not really critical - it's
trying to make the .DVI documentation, and fails for some weird reason.

To use mgetty, you can just look at the documentation on
http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/

gert

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:47:42PM -0500, Bob O'Quinn wrote:
> When I run make I get the following errors:
> 
> mgetty.texi: 319: `.' or `,' must follow cross reference, not ).
> and similar messages for the lines 320, 527, 1013, 1024, 1292, 1475, 1829,
> 1834 and 2669. Next I get
> 
> make[1]: [mgetty.info] Error 2 (ignored)
> stdin: 305: `.' or `,' must follow cross reference, not ).
> and similar errors for the lines 306, 513, 999, 1010, 1278, 1461, 1815,
> 1820, 2655. Next I get
> 
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex: command not found
>                             tex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make[1]: [mgetty.dvi] Error 1 (ignored)
> make[1]: dvips: Command not found
> make[1]: [mgetty.ps] Error 127 (ignored)
> 
> I have no earthly idea what is wrong here and would appreciate help.
> 
> P.S. I am running Redhat Linux 6.0 and got mgetty 1.1.20
> 
> I want to be able to dial into my server with a terminal app and get a login
> prompt (I don't care for fax or voice capabilities). Reading through the
> HOWTOs and FAQs lead me to believe that mgetty is what I need.
> 
> 

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