Re: gendocs broken?

[Bruce Korb]

Thanks, Padraig. I'll pull the new version. I'm still conflicted tho:
I like having the manuals broken by section and the "makeinfo" version
seems to only do it by node. Oh, well. Anyway, thank you for pointing
me in the right direction! Cheers - Bruce
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 2:31 PM Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 17/06/18 12:11, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > Hi Pádraig,
> >
> > If "texi2html" is out of date, then how do I get HTML?
> > I want to keep my online docs up to date. If there's a better
> > way, I'm for that. I confess I don't closely track stuff so
> > when better ways come around, I need to find out by bumping
> > into something. This is such a bump. It would be convenient
> > if I could just tell the script to "make html" and it figured
> > out how to do that. :) Also, if it cannot (like I didn't have
> > texi2html installed), it should *FAIL* rather than silently
> > creating an empty html file. It took an hour of futzing around
> > to finally figure out that the execution failure of the non-
> > existent texi2html was silently ignored. :(
>
> I'm not too familiar with these tools TBH,
> but makeinfo is used to generate html if --texi2html
> is not passed to this gendocs.sh script.
> texi2html docs also point to makeinfo being the
> focus of development now.
>
> I've pushed my patch.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig
>


-- 
 - Bruce