From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MAKEINFO variable not honoured Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20110101.132151.306582047.wl@gnu.org> <20110103.062328.531754232.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294033856 31880 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 05:50:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 05:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 06:50:52 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 1PZdJk-0001Ha-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:50:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZdJj-0002di-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49828 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZdJb-0002bk-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZdJa-0000r7-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZdJa-0000qx-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35130) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZdJV-0004ZY-Fp; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:50:37 -0500 X-Spook: John Kerry bomb Clinton Geraldton Centro Becker munitions X-Ran: 5>piRflIIi^q,vGhr@lyG&ZqK#Q*L1}O!Ux.1Uan$6d2A%<1B+5\K1Y:p2ogeQ??H|b$j; X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20110103.062328.531754232.wl@gnu.org> (Werner LEMBERG's message of "Mon\, 03 Jan 2011 06\:23\:28 +0100 \(CET\)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:134194 Archived-At: Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> However, during `make bootstrap', this variable isn't honoured since >> the sub-Makefiles in the `doc' subdirectory contain lines like this >> >> MAKEINFO = makeinfo --force -I $(srcdir) >> >> which directly overwrite the MAKEINFO variable. >> >> Below a trivial patch which fixes this. > > Thanks for your enthusiastical silence! :-) If noone objects, I'll > apply it. A little over a day is not a long time to wait for replies. It will give funny results when MAKEINFO = off or no. Probably those cases ought to be reworked somehow.