Test for asciidoc failed when installing tinyproxy

Question

I want to install tinyproxy https://banu.com/tinyproxy/

when I cd into the directory and run make I get

checking for a2x... no
configure: error: Test for asciidoc failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.

then I want to install asciidoc I get

[root@dd tinyproxy-1.8.3]yum install asciidoc
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package asciidoc available.
Error: Nothing to do

how to deal with this? thanks

Answer 1

If asciidoc is not in your linux distribution or you are not root. you have to install it manually. download the asciidoc tarball from http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ and do the usual:

  configure --prefix=${HOME} && make && make install

Then make sure that ${HOME}/bin is in your PATH, e.g. by running export PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/bin

The configure script of tinyproxy will check if a2x is somewhere in your PATH. If it can't find it, you won't get it to compile.

Answer 2

If you don't care the docs of tinyproxy, just remove the docs subdirectory from the SUBDIRS variable in Makefile and then make.

This will skip the doc generating target when calling make, so there is no need to install a2x.