One thing we could do, is add a configure flag --without-documentation so that the person building can choose not generate any documents.
J' On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:12:15PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: Maybe it is possible that make make install will produce an info file without examples? Examples only with make doc or similar? Another idea would be a make target which is crafted for the cross compile process without the requirement of a pspp executable that runs on the build host. Fritz > Am 17.11.2020 um 18:40 schrieb John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:04:39PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > Is it a big deal to produce the examples only for the doc target? > > Our "doc" target is a convenience thing which is defined as > > doc: $(INFO_DEPS) $(DVIS) $(PDFS) $(PSS) $(HTMLS) $(dist_docbook_DATA) > > > Note that INFO_DEPS includes doc/pspp.info which since it is documentation > needs the examples. INFO_DEPS is a standard dependency of the all-am target > which is set automatically by automake. > > So I think your question boils down to "Can we omit pspp.info from the default > target?" - I suppose the answer to that question is "Yes we could". > However it would fly in the face of the GNU conventions, which installs the > info files when running "make install". > > J' > > >