* bug#7104: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
@ 2010-09-25 23:21 Ulrich Mueller
2010-10-04 0:49 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2010-09-25 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 7104
This concerns the stand-alone version of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/texi/elisp.texi.tar.gz>
The README file claims:
* This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'.
** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'.
However, the Makefile is not functional:
$ tar xf elisp.texi.tar.gz
$ cd lispref
$ make info
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `../../info/elisp'. Stop.
$ make elisp.dvi
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `elisp.dvi'. Stop.
$ make elisp.pdf
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `elisp.pdf'. Stop.
$
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* bug#7104: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
2010-09-25 23:21 bug#7104: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken Ulrich Mueller
@ 2010-10-04 0:49 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-04 6:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2010-10-04 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulrich Mueller; +Cc: 7104
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> However, the Makefile is not functional:
This can be fixed, but I wonder if it is worth bothering.
I think it's fine just to say "the source for these manuals is
distributed with Emacs" and to remove those tarfiles.
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* bug#7104: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
2010-10-04 0:49 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2010-10-04 6:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2010-10-06 2:39 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2010-10-04 6:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 7104
>>>>> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> However, the Makefile is not functional:
> This can be fixed, but I wonder if it is worth bothering.
> I think it's fine just to say "the source for these manuals is
> distributed with Emacs" and to remove those tarfiles.
Another obvious solution would be to exclude the broken Makefile from
the tarball (run "make distclean" in the Emacs top-level dir?).
BTW, Gentoo still has an app-doc/elisp-manual package which uses
these tarballs. But it wouldn't be a big issue for us if you removed
them. (They aren't very distro-friendly anyway, since they are
unversioned. Until elisp-manual-21-2.8.tar.gz they used to have a
version as part of their filename.)
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