From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problem building emacs-lisp-intro.dvi. Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87ejvanxp7.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87veomm7rf.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87ac5xvl04.fsf@xs4all.nl> <854pw5436k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156242680 8313 80.91.229.2 (22 Aug 2006 10:31:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 12:31:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFTXL-0000xD-Ms for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFTXL-0006hx-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:31:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFTX7-0006fI-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFTX6-0006eX-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFTX6-0006eQ-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GFTed-0003Rr-Nu; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <854pw5436k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:53:07 +0200) 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:58708 Archived-At: What relevance has the release date of Emacs 20 here? Backward compatibility. Eli said IIRC, the -I switch was supported by makeinfo since day one. which may be the case. However, the Texinfo manual (version 4.8, 29 December 2004) says `-I DIR' Append DIR to the directory search list for finding files that are included using the `@include' command. By default, `makeinfo' searches only the current directory. If DIR is not given, the current directory `.' is appended. Note that DIR can actually be a list of several directories separated by the usual path separator character (`:' on Unix, `;' on MS-DOS/MS-Windows). I do not know whether texinfo.tex, which is input with a `\input' command, is considered an `@include' file. Incidently, the earliest log message for the switch that I see in emacs/man/Makefile.in is from 6 April 1998: revision 1.13 date: 1998-04-06 10:33:02 +0000; author: schwab; state: Exp; lines: +18 -17 (ENVADD): Enviroment vars to pass to texi2dvi. Use it in dvi targets. (../etc/GNU): Change to $(srcdir) first. which is after Emacs version 20.2 was released on 19 September 1997 and before Emacs version 20.3 was released on 19 August 1998. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc