Re: elisp-manual-21-2.8 Makefile does not conform to GNU standards

[David Kastrup]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:25:41 -0700 (MST)
> > 
> > The configure-generated Makefile for elisp-manual-21-2.8 does not
> > conform to GNU standards: it lacks targets "all" and "check", causing
> > this standard recipe to fail:
> > 
> >     ./configure && make all check install
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Since in future releases the ELisp manual will be distributed as part
> of Emacs, I'm not sure this is something we need to fix.  What do you
> think?

I think it would probably not be the worst idea if the Elisp manual
remained available separately for those who desired it.  For example,
there might be XEmacs package authors around that would not mind
having their packages also run on Emacs.  If somebody else delivers a
first port, not much more than crosschecking with the Elisp manual
when doing changes is required, without having to install or use
Emacs itself.

Also there are many people using prepackaged versions of Emacs (RPM
files and the like).  If those want to, say, print out an Elisp
manual, they would need to get at the TeXinfo source.  The most
convenient way would be if it was available separately without having
to install one large source archive including the whole of Emacs.

That being said, I definitely applaud the inclusion of the Elisp
manual with Emacs.  This should have been done long ago.  One of
those changes that trigger "of course!" once somebody does them.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de