Documentation (/doc/auto.tex) is not compiling

[auto-07p]

Documentation (/doc/auto.tex) is not compiling

[friederrr]

Today the link seems to work; odd.

Regarding the manual, it seems to be a "chicken-egg"-type problem: I'm afraid there is no manual auto.pdf in the doc folder available, so the instructions you quoted were not available to me, and thus I naturally expected to need to run pdflatex on auto.tex to obtain the manual in the first place.
There is also no link to manual under the concordia link (though its existence is mentioned).

If you could fix the readme that says "Please have a look at the manual, doc/auto.pdf" to either point to a verified source of the manual, or to mention that the compilation instructions for auto.tex actually are inside auto.tex themself (on line 276 - should future readers stumble upon this comment) that would be great. Happy to also contribute to the manual.

(BTW, searching the internet brought up this obscure link https://depts.washington.edu/bdecon/workshop2012/auto-tutorial/documentation/auto07p%20manual.pdf though I have not verified if the file indeed is the complete manual.)

[bartoldeman]

Quoting the manual:
"
To generate the on-line manual, type \commandf{make} in
\filef{auto/07p/doc}, which depends on the presence of xfig's
(transfig) fig2dev utility.
"
you can't just run pdflatex on the tex file since indeed some figure are first converted. Then for the bibliography bibtex needs to be ran.

The Concordia link still works for me.

Python 3 is definitely supported. The CI (GitHub Actions) tests both 2 and 3.

The manual always can use improvement -- in this case the Python version statement is not incorrect but I agree it could be clarified. Contributions are always welcome (please keep in mind I can only tend to AUTO from time to time as personal development).