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Re: INSTALL-CVS
From: |
David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: INSTALL-CVS |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:26:06 -0700 |
>>>>> Stefan Monnier writes:
>> David Masterson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> |> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
>> |>
>> |> > However, I guess it would be harmless now to change it so that
>> |> > top-level `make all' updates the Info files but does not generate
>> |> > the DVI files.
>> |>
>> |> Suggestion -- have the configure script 'touch' the Info files as the
>> |> last thing it does if and only if they exist at the time of the
>> |> 'configure'.
>>
>> This is counter-productive, because then if you rerun configure when the
>> info files are out-of-date they won't be rebuilt.
Is there a configure output file that could be checked for existence
(config.log) and don't do the 'touch' in that case?
> Agreed.
> I think we should simply add `man' to the default target and live
> with it. If that means that `makeinfo' is sometimes called when a
> user installs Emacs, what's the big deal ? If the problem is that
> the user might not have a working `makeinfo', how about running it
> with a leading "-" so that an error from `makeinfo' is ignored by
> make ?
Ignoring the error in 'man' would cause 'install-man' to fail.
Perhaps configure should test for a working 'makeinfo' (if it doesn't
already) and default to (say) '/bin/true' if no working makeinfo is
found?
--
David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/01
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Nick Roberts, 2003/06/01
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/03
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/03
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Andreas Schwab, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS,
David Masterson <=
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/05
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/05
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Nick Roberts, 2003/06/05
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/06
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04