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Re: html texinfo install?
Eric Siegerman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:02:45PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> > If, as in Bruce's proposal, they explicitly say "I want HTML", when
> > there's no HTML in the distribution, that's one thing. Making it happen
> > when they say "configure && make install", quite another.
>
> BTW, this is another case like configure.ac and configure, where
> CVS scrambles the timestamps since foo.info sorts lexically
> before foo.texi. I've found myself more than once having to
That's what the contrib/gcc_update script does: handles the shortcomings
of CVS. Package distributors cannot distribute a package with out of date
stamps and folks that draw generated sources from CVS have to understand
that CVS has some limitations. Nothing new.
Ralph wrote:
> Bruce Korb writes:
> > Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> > > 2. Please make available enable/disable macros for each output type:
> > > info, html, xml, ps, ...
> > >
> > > I agree we could support all the formats (currently: info html xml
> > > docbook ps pdf plaintext) uniformly,
> >
> > Good.
>
> I would prefer a single --enable-texinfo-formats=[all,info,html,...]
> instead of dozens of individual options.
Me, too. :-)
Cheers - Bruce