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Re: html texinfo install?
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:26, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> [Eric I don't think you really meant to conceal this from Karl
> and Patrice, so I've added the Cc: back. Please be careful not
> to drop it.]
>
> >>> "Eric" == Eric Siegerman <erics@telepres.com> writes:
>
> Eric> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:19:05PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> [...]
> >> Yeah! That's the idea! Type in, ``make html'' and any html-making
> >> gets triggered, whether it is texinfo based or not. :-)
>
> Eric> Or, indeed, whether part is texinfo-based *and* part not. Of
> Eric> course, the target for making the texinfo-based subset of the
> Eric> HTML might indeed be "texinfohtml", and correspondingly for
> Eric> install and uninstall. But that should be purely a detail of
> Eric> automake's implementation:
> Eric> html: texinfohtml whatever_other_html_targets_make_sense
>
> Eric> It need not, and IMO should not, be mentioned in the coding
> Eric> standards.
>
> This makes sense to me.
>
> `make html' is not a problem. However if `make install-html'
> and `make uninstall-html' are introduced and must (as we all
> expect) install more than just makeinfo-generated files, then
> the GNU Coding Standards should also define a destination
> directory for these other files. Something like $htmldir.
Please don't.
Remember, html is just _one_ *output* format among other output format.
If htmldir is added, we will soon have requests for rtf, dvi, pdf, xml,
docbook, M$-doc etc.
May-be a --XXXdocdir mechanism, optionally adding XXX=html,rtf etc.
would be required.
Ralf