On Sun Mar 9 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> Okay, I've reworked it again to satisfy, I believe, all criteria!
> The pathway is simply bbdb-site.el.in to bbdb-site.el.
I adopted your approach, thank you.
> A pre-built bbdb-site.el can be included in the distribution tarball,
> no problem. (Might want to ensure that bbdb-site.el.in is newer
> though, for obvious reasons. There is probably some automake magic to
> regenerate it anyway regardless of timestamp, I have not fiddled with
> that.)
This is the only remaining minor problem: Yes, I think it would be
good to have a pre-built bbdb-site.el included in the distribution
tarball. But ideally `make' should rebuild this file whenever the
user re-runs make with a new value for pkgdatadir. This is really
not a specific issue of BBDB: whenever the value of a variable like
pkgdatadir gets compiled into the code, one might want to rebuild
the respective parts of the code if the value of the variable gets
changed. But probably I am asking for too much here.
The alternative will be that each time one runs make, this
re-generates bbdb-site.el. Probably this is more reliable, while
the overhead is negligible. The cheapest way to achieve this is
probably to make bbdb-site.el depend on a prerequisite that does not
exist and is not supposed to exist, something like ".FORCE", and
this prerequisite appears also as an empty target.
Barak, what do you think?
2014-03-11 Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie>
Generate lisp/bbdb-site.el via lisp/Makefile as pkgdatadir is only
known at "make" time.
* configure.ac: Remove lisp/bbdb-site.el from autoconfig files.
Increase BBDB version number to 3.1.1
* lisp/Makefile.am: Generate lisp/bbdb-site.el.
* lisp/bbdb-site.el.in: Initialize bbdb-print-tex-path with a
placeholder for pkgdatadir.
2014-03-11 Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie>
* Makefile.am: Install files COPYING, ChangeLog, AUTHORS, NEWS,
README, and TODO in the doc directory.
* doc/Makefile.am: Install bbdb.pdf in the doc directory.
2014-03-11 Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie>
* m4/package_date.m4: Use "date -u" if "date --rfc-3339" fails.
BBDB is available at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
To check it out, use
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
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