From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 14799@debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.g0@libero.it
Subject: bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:54:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blutb481.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mueh7p2f.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:48:24 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > Why is it a virtue to avoid new Makefile targets?
>>
>> It seems like a combinatorial explosion of rules.
>> bovine-a4-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-odd-page-open/bovine-a4-non-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-non-odd-page-open
>> etc.
>
> Did anyone ask for all those additional options?
Yup. The request was for A4 and odd page opens, which should be
independent options, I think...
> And you can always make the addition targets just set a value of a
> Make variable, which will then be picked up by -t.
>
> Anyway, just an idea. If no one likes it, I'm okay.
And in any case, I had misunderstood the documentation -- I thought
@ifset was about environment variables, but they aren't. They're about
flags, so you're right: The only way to inject the flags are via -t
switches.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-07 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 8:10 bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format Angelo Graziosi
2019-08-15 4:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 10:01 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-09-29 12:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 16:26 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-10-01 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 12:30 ` Robert Pluim
2019-10-01 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-02 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-07 3:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-01 19:18 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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