On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:33:06AM -0600, Jason Jackson wrote: >Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most packages that require >"compiling" documents provide a make option that only compiles the >docs? > >For those that don't require compilation, no make would be necessary, >just use 'cp -r' to copy document subdirectories to the correct >directories under pkg.
If the software build is done well, yes! Autoconf has 'info' and 'install-info' targets. That covers quite a lot of packages, and certainly should cover the problematic ones (since most are GNU packages). Smaller packages, and packages that don't use Autoconf might be harder to deal with. 'cp -r' is probably workable in many cases... it's always an option to look at how Debian handles these packages since they almost always split documentation into separate packages. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Mary had a little key (It's all she could export), and all the email that she sent was opened at the Fort. -- Ron Rivest
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