Re: Building without makeinfo

Re: Building without makeinfo

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> However, wouldn't a better fix be to include a prebuilt
> guile-procedures.txt in the distribution?  If I understand correctly,
> all we would need to do is
> 
> - add guile-procedures.txt to EXTRA_DIST
> 
> - remove the `else' branch of the `if HAVE_MAKEINFO' block.
> 
> What do you think?

Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration
of Guile.  So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right'
guile-procedures.txt file.

But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but
we have to be careful when generating it.

I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads,
guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading
functions.

So, when we have a good way to create a default guile-procedures.txt,
then I'd say we should distribute it.

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Re: Building without makeinfo

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

    Marius> Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration
    Marius> of Guile.  So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right'
    Marius> guile-procedures.txt file.

I see - good point.

    Marius> But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but
    Marius> we have to be careful when generating it.

    Marius> I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads,
    Marius> guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading
    Marius> functions.

    Marius> So, when we have a good way to create a default guile-procedures.txt,
    Marius> then I'd say we should distribute it.

Agreed.

This reminds me of something else.  I believe we were going to write
some instructions to distributors on how to build a generic Guile for
including in a distribution.  Has that been done yet?

(FWIW, I would specify `--with-threads'.)

        Neil


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Re: Building without makeinfo

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> This reminds me of something else.  I believe we were going to write
> some instructions to distributors on how to build a generic Guile for
> including in a distribution.  Has that been done yet?

Not that I know of.  It's a "release critical bug".  :-)

> (FWIW, I would specify `--with-threads'.)

Yes.

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