Petr Rockai <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> writes: >> The user manual is still built (from .tex and .lhs to .html and .pdf) >> by the autoconf infrastructure (sorry!). >> >> Historically Eric has included pre-rendered .html and .pdf files in >> the source tarballs, so that users can install the manuals without >> needing to get a whole TeX environment up and running. >> >> I kinda assumed that we'd keep doing that, at least until Cabal can >> build the user manual all by itself. > > Well, that would mean that "sdist" needs to be able to build the manual from > the primary sources. Doesn't sound right to me, either. The whole problem is > that when you have the right darcs checkout, you should be able to produce a > bit-to-bit identical tarball by just issuing runghc Setup sdist. > > So, suggestions? As a temporary kind of measure, we could just call some make > incantation from sdist. However please note that building darcs as part of the > tarball build is out of question.
Strictly, the TeX manually currently requires ./preproc (not ./darcs) to be compiled, but preproc effectively imports all of the same libraries that Darcs does. So I don't see a way a pre-rendered manual can be provided, since we will always want parts of that manual to come from the literate source code. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
