Re: Building SVN source failures: VPATH builds; Cygwin

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 13.01.2017 um 20:56 schrieb Gavin Smith:=

> I've removed many of the files you recommended. I haven't removed
> texinfo.awk yet, I need to work out what to do with it first.

As long as you keep it, you'll have to add something to man/Makefile.am 
or texindex/Makefile.am that makes sure that either

a) makes a copy of texindex.awk into $(top_builddir)/texindex so 
'./texindex' can be called from there, or

b) texindex/Makefile.am builds texindex.awk into $(srcdir) like info 
files are, or

c) man/Makefile.am sets TEXINDEX_AWK to run it

The key drawback of option c) would be that if somebody with a VPATH 
build setup changes ti.twjr, they'll still be running the outdated 
$(srcdir)/texindex.awk for this step, instead of the fresh $(builddir) 
version.

> I think
> another solution could be to check in the man pages to version
> control, but I haven't looked at this detail.

That would run into the same kind of problem as option c): the risk of 
having stale files used without any apparent symptom of that having 
happened.

I usually prefer sticking with the "no generated files in version 
control (except for rather exotic generators)" approach.  The next best 
one is "keep version control contents identical to the distribution 
tarball," assuming version control can be trusted with the time stamps. 
You're currently working a mixture of the two.  I can't see much of a 
benefit in that.