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: RefTeX Merge Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877grkehl2.fsf@caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348427403 4444 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2012 19:10:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ralf Angeli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 21:10:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrZ5-000200-KD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrZ0-00014N-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrYw-0000xI-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrYu-0007mR-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrYu-0007mN-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFrYt-0005Qg-7N; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:51 -0400 X-Spook: asset pipeline AGT. AMME CID Comirex Zachawi Freeh Ft. X-Ran: TU\eh{7s'GZ2IM%.(`0p9g]4{Erf=F@z7,#?ijc+Y8(i4fcz?A%]g5G-oOE=I.f(1H*$O= X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:48:25 -0400") 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-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153495 Archived-At: 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.)