Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:
 >>> So the new work is merely to add *.t2d in .cvsignore (or whatever), and
 >>> CLEANFILES = *.t2d in Makefile.am, until Automake is updated?

 > Can we work on an interface that will not require any change in
 > Automake the next time texi2dvi invents new files or
 > directories?

That's the whole point: now there is no reason for additional
files/directories to be created.

 > Having an operation mode where texi2dvi cleans itself the
 > auxiliary files that it would otherwise create sounds right to
 > me.  In other words, I'd like `make mostlyclean' to call
 > `texi2dvi --mostlyclean input.texi' for all `input.texi',
 > instead of having to know how texi2dvi works internally.

 > (I think that's an old idea from Akim.)

That's right :) But that's already too late for older texi2dvi, so I
think you will most probably never use this feature in Automake (just
as you will most probably not get rid of the silly list of hard coded
extensions that Texinfo files might create)

Sure, you can affort to

      -texi2dvi --mostlyclean
      rm -rf ...

but is there really any point?  I'm fine with implementing this, I'm
merely asking whether it will be used.