From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RefTeX Merge
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lipb45zeo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pq5cwp6u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:48:25 -0400")
Glenn Morris wrote:
>> The version and date strings for Lisp and Texinfo files of the
>> standalone version is generated from the ChangeLog when make is run,
>> so that it is always up-to-date, even for development versions. The
>> build process creates a reftex.el file with the version and autoload
>> information and a version.texi file with the version and the date that
>> is included in the main Texinfo file. Is there something like this as
>> well in Emacs?
>
> This is not really an option for Emacs, because the info and elc files
> are pre-built in release tarfiles. So people don't even need to have
> makeinfo installed to build Emacs. So you cannot generate parts of the
> *.texi files at build time. This is why eg doc/emacs/emacsver.texi is
> not generated by configure.
I'm being particularly dumb today and should probably be ignored.
Of course you could have such a rule if it ran only during the building
of the info files. (But it doesn't seem worth the effort to me.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-23 18:10 RefTeX Merge Ralf Angeli
2012-09-23 18:39 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-24 6:13 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-24 20:44 ` Ralf Angeli
2012-09-24 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-25 6:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-26 6:11 ` Ralf Angeli
2012-09-26 7:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-09-26 7:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-26 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 10:20 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-26 13:24 ` Subdirectories in `lisp' Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30 20:46 ` RefTeX Merge Ralf Angeli
2012-09-23 18:48 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-23 18:58 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-23 19:09 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-09-24 1:42 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-24 1:50 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-24 21:02 ` Ralf Angeli
2012-10-16 7:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-11-01 14:05 ` Ralf Angeli
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