On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > - texinfo.tex is not required if a Texinfo source file is specified. The > assumption is that the file will be supplied, but in a place that > Automake cannot find. This assumption is an artifact of how Cygnus > packages are typically bundled.
texinfo.tex is in a known location, but only a single copy for GDB and binutils and a single copy for GCC rather than in each directory needing it. Is the approach used (for example) in libquadmath/Makefile.am TEXINFO_TEX = ../gcc/doc/include/texinfo.tex considered a suitable approach for this case? > - Certain tools will be searched for in the build tree as well as in the > user's PATH. These tools are runtest, expect, makeinfo and texi2dvi. I did previously suggest removing the existing support for building and using these tools in-tree <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01674.html>, but there was pushback on that. I don't know, however, if it actually depends on anything built into automake. > - The check target doesn't depend on all. I'm not aware of a need for that. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
