Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 25/02/2014 21:36, Bruce Dubbs a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> Thanks, sorry for not thinking it could be a mistake.

Should be fixed now.  I did make a couple of minor changes, but nothing 
substantive.

   -- Bruce

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