Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I vote for removing this file from the list of mandatory files. > > It's not mandatory. It only gets included when the file is present > in your development workspace (presumably by some mistake?) when you > run automake. Hmm. I can no longer repeat the problem. Sorry for the noise. >

RE: Future plans for Autotools

2021-06-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 13 May 2021, FOURNIER Yvan wrote: Hi Karl, Regarding the possible addition of a libtool option to ignore .la files, I would need to take a deeper look into how libtool works (I have only scratched the surface and experimented with it as a "black box" so far, but If I do get around

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. >> >> Yes it is really not a good solution in this case. The file is >> detected at "automake" time and the rule to distribute texinfo.tex >> is baked into the generated Makefile.in. That then gets

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. > > Yes it is really not a good solution in this case. The file is > detected at "automake" time and the rule to distribute texinfo.tex > is baked into the generated Makefile.in. That then gets bundled up > into the tarball. Yep.

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 23/06/2021, Peter Johansson wrote: > > On 24/6/21 3:02 am, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> As far as I know there is no way to disable this behaviour, although >>> I agree the automagic file inclusion can be a bit funky. >> Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. > > There is the

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Peter Johansson
On 24/6/21 3:02 am, Werner LEMBERG wrote: As far as I know there is no way to disable this behaviour, although I agree the automagic file inclusion can be a bit funky. Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. There is the dist hook, which can be used to remove files from the

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake >> --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I >> don't have texinfo documentation. > > The texinfo.tex file (and others listed along with it) is included > in the distribution only if the file is

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake > --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I > don't have texinfo documentation. The texinfo.tex file (and others listed along with it) is included in the

How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I don't have texinfo documentation. Werner

Re: parallel build issues

2021-06-23 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It is possible to insert additional dependency lines in Makefile.am so software is always built in the desired order, but this approach might only work if you always build using the top level Makefile. This should actually work here: the problem is that a target in