Fedora 44 - Error compiling survex

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 03:47:56PM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
> Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 9 March 2026. Version 4.88.
> Latexmk: Nothing to do for 'survex.tex'.
> Latexmk: All targets (survex.pdf) are up-to-date
> Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
>   pdflatex: gave an error in previous invocation of latexmk.
[...]
> Am I missing yet another package?

Seems something related to TeX or LaTeX is not installed, but hard to
know exactly what without seeing that "error in previous invocation of
latexmk".

I don't use Fedora but this page should list the build-dependencies in
terms of Debian/Ubuntu package names, from which you can probably figure
out the Fedora equivalents:

https://survex.com/cvs.html

However if you're just wanting to use Survex rather than help develop
it, I'd recommend using a released version and those are available as a
.tar.gz which includes the generated documentation and requires many
fewer tools installed to successfully build.

Using a release version also means you don't get any half-implemented
and/or experimental features which the git main branch may include.

Cheers,
    Olly