From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:27:58 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306041727.h54HRwQr026563@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> <200306041442.h54EgTtL025689@rum.cs.yale.edu> <16094.11182.414000.952773@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054749096 9789 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 17:51:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 19:51:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NcPX-0002TZ-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NchD-0005wr-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:09:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NcPX-0003rU-4s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NcFF-0001A5-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Nc8a-0007RM-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Nc3L-0005kr-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h54HRw0i026565; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h54HRwQr026563; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:27:58 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: David Masterson Original-cc: Andreas Schwab Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14702 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14702 > > I think we should simply add `man' to the default target and live > > with it. If that means that `makeinfo' is sometimes called when a > > user installs Emacs, what's the big deal ? If the problem is that > > the user might not have a working `makeinfo', how about running it > > with a leading "-" so that an error from `makeinfo' is ignored by > > make ? > > Ignoring the error in 'man' would cause 'install-man' to fail. Why would it ? Stefan