Re: eliminating conf.texi

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Dec-2009, Rik wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
|
| > As I see it, we have a some options.
| >
| >   1. Require that HAVE_COLAMD, HAVE_CHOLMOD, HAVE_UMFPACK, and
| >      HAVE_QHULL are all defined in order to run "make dist" (so that
| >      all the figures for the manual can be generated).
| >
| > I'm leaning toward option 1 since it means that the manual in a
| > distribution file will always be complete.
| 
| I think we should begin by implementing option 1.

I've done some work on this and I think I have something that is very
close to passing "make distcheck".

Could you please hold off on any additional changes until I've
verified my latest changes and checked them in?

Thanks,

jwe