Re: [Monotone-devel] --docdir and --htmldir

[Thomas Keller]

Am 18.01.2010 18:43, schrieb Zack Weinberg:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I stumbled upon a small possible issue (again) while building openSUSE
>> rpm packages. Apparently documentation should go into
>> PREFIX/share/doc/packages/monotone (or the output of `rpm --eval
>> %_docdir`/monotone), but we install everything under
>> PREFIX/share/doc/monotone. I guess the --docdir and --htmldir options
>> are meant to control that behaviour, but both don't work and still just
>> put everything into PREFIX/share/doc/monotone.
> 
> This is almost certainly because we have hand-rolled rules for
> generating HTML from Texinfo, instead of using automake's rules.  I
> tried to fix this about a month ago but ran into a brick wall related
> to the figures - each output format (info, pdf, ps, html) wants a
> different format for the figure files (.txt, .pdf, .eps, .png
> respectively) and some of them *break* if they find figures in a
> format other than they one they expect (most prominently, for no
> comprehensible reason, pdftex prefers .png figures over .pdf figures!)
>  And automake's support for distinct include directories for the
> various formats is ... not really there.

Hi Zack!

Have you looked how other software packages handle this issue, i.e. do
all of them have their own automake foo? Maybe there is some kind of
workaround for that...

Other than that, can we maybe fix the issue I pointed out above and
somehow respect our own path configure options?

What exactly would vanish / not work any longer if we'd switch to
automake's rules?

Thanks,
Thomas.

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