On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Jack Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> > wrote: >> if COND >> info_TEXINFOS = foo.texi >> foo_TEXINFOS = bar.texi >> nodist_info_TEXINFOS = generated.texi >> endif >> >> should work to generate and install foo.{info,pdf,...} only if COND, >> but distribute foo.texi and bar.texi always. Similar with >> generated.texi (except for distribution, of course). > > Disagree. foo.info should always be built, because it goes into `make > dist'. If you want to limit building for non-specific `make', then > make sure that the .info files and such all depend on `make dist', so > the tarball is correctly generated.
Further thoughts on the above: The maintainer should always have access to `texinfo', and the user should never have to rebuild .info files, so it seems OK to me if they're not blocked when COND is false. -- Jack
