Pedro Alves writes:
>> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
>
> ...
>> it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally)
>> "hack!info-in-builddir". I hope this is acceptable to you.
> ...
>> *undocumented* option '!hack!info-in-buildd
On 04/03/2012 09:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
...
> it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally)
> "hack!info-in-builddir". I hope this is acceptable to you.
...
> *undocumented* option '
Stefano Lattarini writes:
> But since I'm not yet ready to publish this new feature, I intend to make
> it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally)
> "hack!info-in-builddir". I hope this is acceptable to you.
Sure, works for me.
Thanks.
Ian
> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes:
Stefano> On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I
Stefano> couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence
Stefano> the location of the generated info files -- and it turned out
Stefano> it didn't! Despite what was doc
On 04/03/2012 10:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
> files generated in the builddir in your use cases. Since the actual change
> required by automake to allow this is very small and safe, I'm ready to do
> it (see attach
On 04/03/2012 10:05 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 10:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
>> files generated in the builddir in your use cases. Since the actual change
>> required by automake to allow this is
OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
files generated in the builddir in your use cases. Since the actual change
required by automake to allow this is very small and safe, I'm ready to do
it (see attached patch, which I will push in a couple of days to 'maste
Quoting Stefano Lattarini :
By looking at the 'handle_texinfo_helper' function in the automake script,
I suspect adding a new Automake option 'info-in-builddir' (say) and an
handful of lines to the automake script might be enough to give you an easy
way to force the '.info' files to be generated
