Eric Blake wrote: > Hi Gary, Hi Eric!
> According to Gary V. Vaughan on 5/24/2006 6:05 AM: >>> I concur that a relative link to a user's local html installation would >>> be preferable. Maybe we could add an install-hook rule that looks for >>> the referenced page in a sibling directory, and pokes that value in >>> using sed? > > Sounds like a lot of work, especially since 'make html' is optional > according to GNU Coding standards, and we don't have a 'make html-install' > on the 1.4.x series yet. For the 1.4.x series, I'm comfortable leaving > that post-processing to distributions that actually ship html docs along > with their binaries. And 2.0 is far enough out that maybe texinfo will > have a better solution by then. ACK. Looking at the makefiles I can't find the rules to rune gendoc.sh that I could have sworn I had written for the 1.4 tree. I must have run them manually to update http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/index.html with the last m4 stable releases. My bad. I've added capturing this stuff into a Makefile.maint (along with looking at this issue again) to my TODO list. >>> 2006-05-23 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> * Makefile.in (html): New target. >>> * doc/Makefile.in (html, m4.html): Likewise. >>> (MAKEINFOHTML): New macro. >>> * doc/m4.texinfo (Francois) [ifnottex]: Use newer texinfo >>> rendering. >>> (Regexp) [ifhtml]: Make cross-reference to emacs manual an >>> absolute URL. >>> Reported by Bob Badour. >>> >>> Your patch is already a step forward though, so feel free to commit >>> as is if you haven't the time to work on an install-hook. > > OK, installed to branch-1_4, along with an update to THANKS. Thanks! Cheers, Gary. -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. [EMAIL PROTECTED],gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://blog.azazil.net GNU Hacker / )= http://trac.azazil.net/projects/libtool Technical Author `(_~)_ http://sources.redhat.com/autobook
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