Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-29 Thread Ed Hartnett
Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:04:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: >> Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It sounds like the best plan would be to add a flag to "configure" >> that indicates you want to build docs, like --with-build-do

Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-29 Thread Ed Hartnett
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Ed, > Howdy Ralf! > With PS this is reasonable: the .dvi file is not in the distribution, > so the make rules try to update that. (Portable make syntax is not able > to express this kind of intermediate dependency.) Solution is to put > netcd

Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-29 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:04:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like the best plan would be to add a flag to "configure" > that indicates you want to build docs, like --with-build-docs using > AC_ARG_WITH. [...] a quick comment fr

Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ed, * Ed Hartnett wrote on Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:20:36AM CEST: > > # Get lists of the corresponding ps, info, and pdf files. > ps_docs = ${info_TEXINFOS:.texi=.ps} > pdf_docs = ${info_TEXINFOS:.texi=.pdf} > info_docs= ${info_TEXINFOS:.texi=.info} > txt_docs= ${info_TEXINFOS:.texi=.txt} >

Re: trying to install docs that are distributed with my package...

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want is to build the documentation on the developer's machine, > include it in the distribution, and then install it. > > The documents are all texinfo documents, and we cannot require that > every user machine have texinfo and tex installed.