bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-15 Thread Bogdan
Karl Berry , Fri Jul 14 2023 23:32:21 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) I could distribute just the .texi.in file and still get autoreconf/automake/packaging to work. Right now, I get an error about a missing .texi file I thought Mike's fix (-e ... /dev/null) should already

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-14 Thread Karl Berry
I could distribute just the .texi.in file and still get autoreconf/automake/packaging to work. Right now, I get an error about a missing .texi file I thought Mike's fix (-e ... /dev/null) should already have fixed that? Well, in any case, it's not bad to check for the .texi.in, so

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-14 Thread Karl Berry
I meant to include the patch I actually applied. commit 5c85a9d31830a61facc298fa7d7d82f5651f1a6c Author: Bogdan AuthorDate: Thu Jul 13 15:32:34 2023 -0700 texi: assume .texi.in generates .texi. This change refines the fix for https://bugs.gnu.org/54063. * bin/automake.in

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-14 Thread Bogdan
Karl Berry , Fri Jul 14 2023 00:34:39 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time) Bogdan, Pat, Gavin, all - back on this bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54063 Subject: bug#54063: - special case] Try .texi.in when .texi missing Bogdan - the basic idea of your patch

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-14 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 04:34:39PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > Bogdan, Pat, Gavin, all - back on this bug: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54063 > Subject: bug#54063: - special case] Try .texi.in when .texi missing > > As previously discussed in this bug, I added a

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2023-07-13 Thread Karl Berry
Bogdan, Pat, Gavin, all - back on this bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54063 Subject: bug#54063: - special case] Try .texi.in when .texi missing Bogdan - the basic idea of your patch seemed fine, to use .texi.in when .texi is missing. After investigating the behavior

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-26 Thread pertusus
On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 12:07:09AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 25 Feb 2022 16:06, Karl Berry wrote: > > Adding a note to the manual is fine, but what would be (much) more > > likely to actually get noticed by users is a runtime warning. What is > > the actual behavior when the basename and

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 25 Feb 2022 16:06, Karl Berry wrote: > Adding a note to the manual is fine, but what would be (much) more > likely to actually get noticed by users is a runtime warning. What is > the actual behavior when the basename and @setfilename don't match? i don't think it's possible to detect from

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread pertusus
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:29:11PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > Runtime warning in texi2any or automake? > > Both? It seemed to me that @setfilename in texi2any was actually a way to have an output file name different from the input file name. If this is not really useful, we should simply

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread Karl Berry
Runtime warning in texi2any or automake? Both?

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread pertusus
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:06:34PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > Adding a note to the manual is fine, but what would be (much) more > likely to actually get noticed by users is a runtime warning. What is > the actual behavior when the basename and @setfilename don't match? > Sorry to be clueless ...

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread Karl Berry
Adding a note to the manual is fine, but what would be (much) more likely to actually get noticed by users is a runtime warning. What is the actual behavior when the basename and @setfilename don't match? Sorry to be clueless ...

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-25 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 10:32:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > The only issue I see is if after the > > file is generated the @setfilename is not the same as the file base name > > there will be errors. I do not think that automake should support that > > setup, but maybe it would be good to

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 24 Feb 2022 11:19, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 01:52:21AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2022 15:03, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > In Texinfo, we have a texinfo manual which is automatically generated > > > from Pod sections from Texinfo perl modules. When this

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-24 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 01:52:21AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 19 Feb 2022 15:03, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > In Texinfo, we have a texinfo manual which is automatically generated > > from Pod sections from Texinfo perl modules. When this generated manual > > is removed, automake cannot run

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 19 Feb 2022 15:03, Patrice Dumas wrote: > In Texinfo, we have a texinfo manual which is automatically generated > from Pod sections from Texinfo perl modules. When this generated manual > is removed, automake cannot run anymore. To workaround this issue, we > have a generation of a fake

bug#54063: automake cannot run without generated Texinfo manual

2022-02-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
Hello, Please CC me, I am not subscribed. In Texinfo, we have a texinfo manual which is automatically generated from Pod sections from Texinfo perl modules. When this generated manual is removed, automake cannot run anymore. To workaround this issue, we have a generation of a fake manual that