Hello Stepan, Am Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:32:42 +0200 schrieb Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Thomas, > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:05:22AM +0200, Thomas Porschberg wrote: > > Am Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:41:07 +0200 > > schrieb Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > a quick answer, > > actually, my answer was too quick, I made several mistakes: > > > [...] you might get a better one from Karl, the maintainer. > > I meant ``the maintainer of Texinfo''; that implies that you should > repost the Texinfo questions to texinfo-help to reach him. already done :-) > > > I don't know if the user then need a bleeding edge distribution ?! > > It should be enough to upgrade one package; 4.8 was released more > than one year ago. of course it is not real problem. I will install 4.6 and 4.7 too, to see if I can do a >=4.6 > > I missed one important thing: Automake supports ``make html'' which > creates the html documentation from Texinfo sources (at least since > Automake 1.9). See the manual for details. Perhaps you should use > that feature rather than your hand-crafted rules. good tip, I will look for it. > > (And, BTW, SUFFIXES = .html is not necessary, Automake can deduce the > suffixes, if they match \.[^.]+ ) I have it from the Autotools-book and it seems that things go on. Thank you for the advice. > > But this feature doesn't distribute the HTML files, so you have to > distribute them yourself, if you wan't to support users which don't > have (the rifght version of) makeinfo. > > One more detail: > > > docdir = $(libdir) > > `docdir' is standardized by new GNU COding Standards, and will be > supported by future releases of Autotools, so you should use another > variable name here, to avoid confusion. > OK, I will rename it. > Have a nice day, > Stepan Have a nice day too. Thomas --
