Re: Changes to aclocal.m4

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-01-15) writes:
>
>> Well, after taking a look at the latest ChangeLog, I see:
>>
>> 	* aclocal.m4 (library): Remove TEX_INPUT_DIRS function.
>>
>> Please don't do stuff like that.  We have a shared aclocal.m4 between
>> preview-latex and AUCTeX, and removing stuff from it makes
>> synchronization harder.
>
> In the case at hand it actually makes it easier.  TEX_INPUT_DIRS was
> written for AUCTeX and unused in preview-latex.

Well, I did not crosscheck and so assumed that it was the same that we
use for figuring out the TeX directory in preview-latex.

Still, since we are keeping both versions synchronized, even checking
for unused stuff is a merging problem.  I'll try to release
preview-latex 0.9 some time next week, and then we can consider
starting with the merge.  So we don't need to be careful for very long
about such things.

I guess that the first iteration will just move the complete CVS
directory into a subdirectory "preview" without moving any files: in
that way we retain a complete file history that can also be checked
out.  If we move around stuff afterwards, we'll have the usual CVS
moving problems, of course, but at least we have some point where the
files are.

Step 1 will be to let the configure and make targets in the top
directory move into preview's subdirectory (unless configured
--without-preview), pass the necessary options there and so on.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum