Re: building the parser as a perl module and in texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:13:46PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     the optimal situation would be to be able to build it both
> 
> This seems like a major independent undertaking, for all the reasons you
> cite.
> 
> I expect it will come as no surprise to you that I'd like to focus on
> making a texinfo release, not a CPAN release.  The former seems critical
> to me, the latter, just "would be nice".

Agreed.

>     For instance, the installation
>     paths do not follow the GNU conventions
> 
> Even at the top level?  If someone calls configure && make install at
> the top of texinfo (not tp), all the files must end up under
> $gnu/share/texinfo.  (We can talk about exactly where.)
> 
> This probably means doing automake stuff inside tp, independent of
> Makefile.PL stuff.  I doubt there is any feasible way around that.

That's also what I am afraid of.

>     Also make distcheck is not an available target and I am not sure
>     that make distdir and so on and so forth are available either.
> 
> Those targets only need to be supported by the top-level Makefile,
> not tp, so that's not an issue.

But in tp/ there has to be everything set up such that this indeed
works.  And my point is that with Makefile.PL this seems to be impossible 
to achieve.

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Pat