Re: Failure in make dist

2013-05-01 Thread Jason Curl
On 01/05/2013 12:55, Stefano Lattarini wrote: [dropping the autoconf list, since this is in all likelihood an automake issue] On 04/27/2013 08:53 PM, Jason Curl wrote: Hello, I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I run distmake for my project, it aborts with t

Re: Creating plain Makefiles with automake

2013-05-01 Thread Miles Bader
Marko Kreen writes: > IMHO, building via "portable makefiles" is bad idea. For quite simple > reason - user rules. Yes, you can create some default targets that are > generated for user, portably. But as soon as user needs to write own > rules or even write logic in makefile, then what? It dep

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
On 05/01/2013 01:39 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 05/01/2013 08:53 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Anyway, what I have is whatever Ubuntu provides in 12.04: raj@tardy:~$ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.11.3 raj@tardy:~$ texi2dvi --version texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.13) 1.135 So this isn't

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Stefano Lattarini writes: > ... > which shows the issue has nothing to do with Automake. In fact, the above > works if I use Texinfo 5.x instead of Texinfo 4.13! I've been bitten by this several times before, with sufficient delays in between these occurrences that it usually takes me a bit of di

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/01/2013 08:53 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > On 05/01/2013 10:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 05/01/2013 06:47 PM, Rick Jones wrote: >>> Why is a good question. I am the messenger in this case. I'm not sure >>> that the .ps actually makes successfully for the netperf manual, but I >>> do not

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
On 05/01/2013 12:11 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Rick Jones writes: Why is a good question. I am the messenger in this case. I'm not sure that the .ps actually makes successfully for the netperf manual, but I do not know that to be the reason for the request. I have been told there has to be som

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Rick Jones writes: > Why is a good question. I am the messenger in this case. I'm not sure > that the .ps actually makes successfully for the netperf manual, but I > do not know that to be the reason for the request. I have been told > there has to be some special handling for the .ps in the D

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
On 05/01/2013 10:54 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 05/01/2013 06:47 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Why is a good question. I am the messenger in this case. I'm not sure that the .ps actually makes successfully for the netperf manual, but I do not know that to be the reason for the request. Ah, OK.

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/01/2013 06:47 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > On 05/01/2013 03:52 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Hi Rick. >> >> On 05/01/2013 01:18 AM, Rick Jones wrote: >>> I have been asked if I was willing to eschew creating the .ps version >>> of the netperf manual. >>> >> Why? What harm do the existence of th

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
On 05/01/2013 03:52 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Rick. On 05/01/2013 01:18 AM, Rick Jones wrote: I have been asked if I was willing to eschew creating the .ps version of the netperf manual. Why? What harm do the existence of the "DVI -> PostScript" recipe do to you? Just avoid generating

Re: Failure in make dist

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[dropping the autoconf list, since this is in all likelihood an automake issue] On 04/27/2013 08:53 PM, Jason Curl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I run > distmake for my > project, it aborts with the error: > >> jcurl@lubuntu1210:~/win

Re: Is there a way to tell automake to not include rules for building .ps files from a .texi?

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Rick. On 05/01/2013 01:18 AM, Rick Jones wrote: > I have been asked if I was willing to eschew creating the .ps version > of the netperf manual. > Why? What harm do the existence of the "DVI -> PostScript" recipe do to you? Just avoid generating the PostScript file if you are not interested in

Re: What did AM_ ever do to you?

2013-05-01 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/01/2013 05:40 AM, Kerrick Staley wrote: > > Automake renamed some macros > These renames has been done *years* ago. And they weren't renaming, really; simply, things that had been implemented in Automake while Autcoconf was dormant were later moved to their proper place (that is, the Autocon