From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk. Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ei7makon.fsf@gnu.org> <83ei7makon.fsf@gnu.org> <838vxuaek9.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4hbitpt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83tygfrxs4.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrlbc5wu.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297153709 25176 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2011 08:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 08 09:28:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmivx-0003nj-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pmivw-0008EC-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51332 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pmivq-0008Dg-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmivl-0001rX-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmivl-0001rT-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pmivk-0000fk-CY; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:28:12 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wrlbc5wu.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (pmlists@free.fr) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135728 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76476 Archived-At: > From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) > Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:00:17 +0100 > Cc: ding@gnus.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I still think it's wrong to have a versioned file that needs to be > > modified for some optional build. It would be better to have the > > Makefile create that file (as empty) as part of the build, if it > > doesn't already exist. Then it doesn't need to e in the repository, > > and developers who need to invoke WEBHACKDEVEL will simply create it > > before running Make. > > Why not just a new target in the Makefile? > "make devel-pdf" and "make devel-html" ? You mean, without any files to @include in the manuals? If so, that's what I suggested way back in the thread, but was told (I think by Ted) that the included file allowed for more than just @set directives, and that this additional flexibility, which is impossible to replace with the -DFOO options to makeinfo, is anticipated to be needed in the future.