Re: texinfo-4.6 patches (Cygwin, AM_MAINTAINER_MODE)

[Karl Berry]

Hi Thomas,

    texinfo is a host tool in cross-building NetBSD, 

I'm surprised, doesn't everything come with info files?  They should ...
Or is it for some other purpose?

    +# ifdef __unix__
    +#  define PATH_SEP ":"
    +#  define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "/tmp/"
    +# else
    +#  define PATH_SEP ";"
    +#  define DEFAULT_TMPDIR "c:/"
    +# endif

I installed this patch, although I put it in a different place so as to
keep all the O_BINARY-and-nothing-else settings together.  Please check
that I didn't screw up the conditionals ... (new version attached).

    we have enabled AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in the configure.ac
    to avoid problems with timestamps

Texinfo is imported into the TeX Live repository as well, with lots of
timestamp problems.  But I've never entirely understood why.  Can you
help me understand?  Is it that the timestamps from the original
distribution aren't preserved when you import them?  (And thus the
"maintainer" rules get triggered when not really needed.)

Thanks,
karl

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