Now agree it should be a shell script, am making it so as we speak.
-K
Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:17:45PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:08:39PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:35:43PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> > > > Make files are to deal with dependencies. Looking at the above, I'll
> > > > reiterate: the distribution process is best described/built using a simple
> > > > shell script. "make dist" offers no advantages over the use of a simple
> > > > shell script, and (I'd say) even has *disadvantages*.
> >
> > Although actually Karl's "make dist" can include the built docs which a
> > simple script can't (given that it doesn't run configure and generate a
> > real Makefile)... hmmmmm.
>
> That can be fixed. We can easily run configure with --disable-subdir-config,
> generate the docs, then clean up again.
>
> Personally, I'd rather see the doc source be HTML. We can easily ship those,
> and they are directly usable on the web site. Many more people know how to
> edit and deal with HTML than (La)TeX. (count me as one)
>
> Post-M3, all this stuff could be rejiggered.
>
> Cheers,
> -g
>
> --
> Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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