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Re: html texinfo install?
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends dot org>
- Cc: dumas at centre-cired dot fr, bug-autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:57:08 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: html texinfo install?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> The obvious directory would be $(datadir)/html by analogy with
> $(datadir)/info, but it seems a bit arrogant to use such a generic name
> for something which only relates to Texinfo manuals. Maybe texinfo/html
> -- then we could have texinfo/xml/ and texinfo/docbook/ and ..., if we
> liked. Thus:
> texinfodata = $(datadir)/texinfo
> texinfohtml = $(texinfodata)/html
Seems fine to me.
> Also, I'm not sure if make all should make them and make install should
> install them by default. I'm inclined to say no, because including the
> HTML in the distributions (which would be the implication) seems like a
> lot of bloat, and I haven't exactly been flooded with complaints on the
> subject. Alexandre suggested separate make [un]install-texinfohtml
> targets, which sounds fine to me.
I am against having separate install targets because GNU makefiles
normally install everything by default and that is what users should
expect. Installing everything is not a problem for distribution
maintainers since they decide which files to package using their
distribution tools.
Bob
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