On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>> Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. >> >> Yes it is really not a good solution in this case. The file is >> detected at "automake" time and the rule to distribute texinfo.tex >> is baked into the generated Makefile.in. That then gets bundled up >> into the tarball. > > Yep. The size of `texinfo.tex` (374kByte) is not significant today, > but if there is no Texinfo documentation in a project it is completely > pointless to include it. > > I vote for removing this file from the list of mandatory files.
It's not mandatory. It only gets included when the file is present in your development workspace (presumably by some mistake?) when you run automake. I don't know how you ended up with it there in the first place but simply delete texinfo.tex from your workspace and re-run automake: now it won't be included in the distribution (problem solved?). I'm afraid I'm not really understanding why this is an issue. Removing anything from this list will just break any projects that depend on the current behaviour when they switch to a new version of Automake, probably in subtle and hard-to-notice ways. Cheers, Nick
