Fedora 44 - Error compiling survex

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 06:25:17PM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
> I have been all over that page listing required packages.  I note that
> latexmk is not on the list, which implies some other requirements may also
> be unlisted.

"latexmk" is 4 from the bottom.

It was missing before I updated the list to match what's currently
installed by the CI builds, but that was *before* I replied to you -
maybe you need to force-reload your browser to get the updated list?

> I tried the .tar.gz file.  Rpmbuild failed with a complaint that
> wxGTK3-devel is not present.  There is no package by that name in Fedora.
> It is named wxGTK-devel and has version 3.2.9.  I think that is a
> show-stopper since there is no way I know of to tell rpmbuild to use a
> different package name for that dependency.

Probably the .spec file is out of date.  We should probably drop it now
there's actually a Fedora package as nobody's regularly using it any
more.

Better to follow the instructions for building from source in INSTALL
instead.

> Is there a log file that captures the entire "make install" run?  I tried
> redirecting STDOUT to a file.  It seems to have captured most of the output.
> See attached.  I see only one attempt to run latexmk.

Probably just capture stdout and maybe stderr.  The log doesn't seem to
show the previous failure.  I'd guess it's some missing TeX thing.

Cheers,
    Olly