waf: building tely+texi, no pictures

2009-11-18 Thread Graham Percival
The current state of waf is that we can't copy or link filenames that go to the same directory (modulo srcdir/blddir). Yes, "cp ${SRC} ${TGT}"... where SRC is in the srcdir, and TGT is in the blddir... fails. If you want to see the error, check out dev/gperciva, edit Documentation/wscript_build,

Re: waf building

2009-11-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote: > Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 19:26 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > > I've got waf buliding contributor .html and .pdf in the dev/gperciva > > branch. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that waf supported a > > --targets= co

Re: waf building

2009-11-10 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 19:26 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > I've got waf buliding contributor .html and .pdf in the dev/gperciva > branch. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that waf supported a > --targets= command-line, so we can specific an individual manual to > build. I'm les

Re: waf building

2009-11-10 Thread John Mandereau
Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 00:36 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > I'm mostly just pissed about the "blddir" stupidness. It's not > the 1970s, folks! Adding the "ui" won't cause the source file to > be too large for the punch card! Besides, one of python's claims > to fame is that it's more re

Re: waf building

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:04:11AM +0100, John Mandereau wrote: > Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 19:26 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > > I was pleasantly surprised to discover that waf supported a > > --targets= command-line, so we can specific an individual manual to > > build. > > I'm not sure

Re: waf building

2009-11-09 Thread John Mandereau
Le samedi 07 novembre 2009 à 19:26 +, Graham Percival a écrit : > I've got waf buliding contributor .html and .pdf in the dev/gperciva > branch. Ah, you got upset enough by the old build system too :-) > I was pleasantly surprised to discover that waf supported a > --targets= command-line,

waf building

2009-11-07 Thread Graham Percival
I've got waf buliding contributor .html and .pdf in the dev/gperciva branch. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that waf supported a --targets= command-line, so we can specific an individual manual to build. I'm less happy that this appears to ignore the "after=foo" check, so none of the de