Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
> > > but I don't quite understand what I should give after
> >
> > > --copy_help=
> >
> > > Can I simply take the stuff that comes in src/share/spadhelp in
> > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/fricas/files/fricas/1.0.7/fricas-1.0....
> > > ? ?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> That is somehow unsatisfactory. I'd like to create the distribution
> from an svn checkout.
> I can wget the noweb sources (as described in the INSTALL file), but I
> have no idea how to generate
> the spadhelp/*.help files.
>
> If these *.help files are in some way necessary for fricas to run
> properly, then why aren't they
> made by default from an svn checkout?
>
*.help are a textual version of (some of) Hyperdoc pages. They
are shown by )help command -- if you do not have them )help
shows nothing. ATM the process of creating help files is
not automated -- few files in the distribution tarball are
taken from NAG cdrom, the rest was created by Tim Daly.
> Can/should I perhaps just ignore those *.help files for the spkg
> generation, i.e. just include the lisp
> and the graphics files?
The real question is how usefull *.help files are. Given
working HyperDoc I personally found no use of them. But
sometimes (like on "native" Windows) we do not have HyperDoc,
then help may be more useful. Also, preferences vary --
so I decided to ship help file in distribution tarball.
> Actually the same question arises for the ghpts target. Cannot
> configure check whether an X server
> is running and thus switch on/off the gphts generation in src/paste?
Ralf, have you looked at working 'make gphts'? Normal 'make'
can run in the background while user is doing something else.
But 'make gphts' pops images on the screen effectively not
allowing doing any other work. In other words, given current
state of 'make gphts' I do not _want_ it to run by default.
> How do I have to call the *top-leve* make to generate the gpths files?
> I think that calling
>
> make
> cd src/paste
> make gphts
> cd ../..
> make
>
> is unsatisfactory.
>
We can put equivalent rule in top-level Makfile.in if that makes
a difference.
--
Waldek Hebisch
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