Greg Troxel wrote in <rmittfkwv15....@s1.lexort.com>: |Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> writes: | |> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 19:06:15 +0900, Rin Okuyama wrote: |> |>> I've changed mknative-gdb to generate *.info by using makeinfo(1) |>> provided by pkgsrc-2024Q2: |>> |>> https://github.com/IIJ-NetBSD/netbsd-src/compare/master...rokuyama:netbs\ |>> d-src:exp/mknative-gdb-makeinfo |>> |>> Then, pre-generated infos are installed for normal builds. |> |> I haven't looked at the actual code, but as an emacs user I'm obviolsy |> all for shipping the info files. Thanks. | |I also think we should have info files. Not just for emacs, but info(1) |standalone. It is a bug to not build the documentation, even if we have |to work around it needing newer info than base has, if that's what is |going on.
Btw *please* do join in upstream bell ringing whenever you can. It has become one "absurdism" of our time that *release tarballs* no longer ship with pre-generated manuals. More and more require superweight build infrastructures. --End of <rmittfkwv15....@s1.lexort.com> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
