Patch to allow optional building of the documentation

2006-08-14 Thread Eric Dorland
Hello, As I pointed out in [0], the Debian Project has voted GFDL documents with Invariant Sections not free according to the DFSG. I will shortly be removing the documentation from the package in main and moving it to non-free. Just stripping the doc directory from the tarball doesn't leave it in

Re: RFC: "Autotools Introduction" chapter draft (16 pages long)

2006-08-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ben, Alexandre, * Ben Pfaff wrote on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:06:15PM CEST: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > package, run `./configure && make && make install', and repeat with the > > next package to install. > > I'm never sure whether I should recommend running "ma

Re: RFC: "Autotools Introduction" chapter draft (16 pages long)

2006-08-14 Thread Micah J. Cowan
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:06:15PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > package, run `./configure && make && make install', and repeat with the > > next package to install. > > I'm never sure whether I should recommend running "make" before > "make install". "make install" will first build everything that

Re: RFC: "Autotools Introduction" chapter draft (16 pages long)

2006-08-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alexandre, all, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:45:50PM CEST: > I you feel that pointing out my missing "s"s and other > blunders will pollute this list, feel free to divert your answer > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I just replied there; apologies for not having post-

Re: RFC: "Autotools Introduction" chapter draft (16 pages long)

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Over the last weeks I've been writing an introductory chapter > for the Automake manual. Now I could use some proofreading > eyes, especially since I'm a foreigner. Other suggestions > welcome too, of course. I'm always amazed how well people w