Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Rev 12783 has reverted what I had done for guile. I am curious why:
>
> I had suppressed instructions for building pdf docs (using texlive!), and
> simplified instructions to build and install html and txt doc, but had not
> changed anything else (I had tested that with a DESTDIR install). It is really
> curious to insist to put pdf doc installation instructions in the book, which
> almost nobody will use (you need X and a pdf reader to see them, and by the
> time you have that, you almost certainly have a browser and can read the html
> doc). Anyway, all the docs come from the same texinfo files, and building pdf
> docs is very standard anyway (once you have tex). Furthermore, it seems to me
> that it is more educational to show how to use the configure machinery to have
> the doc land into the correct dirs, instead of manually creating those and
> copying the files into them.

Oops.  That was a mistake.  I had made the changes and forgot about 
them.  When I merged, I thought they were compatible.  I'll see what I 
can do about reverting that section.

   -- Bruce
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