Re: Bugs in installing...

David Kastrup wrote:

> Ok, here is the problem: we should really fix the tarball in a way
> that if ./configure does not find either Perl or makeinfo, the
> build/install will _NOT_ change any files (most of that job probably
> can be done by replacing the executable with ":" in the Makefile
> variables, as long as they are not used in commands with >something
> but rather with -outputfile something).

Done. Actually, the changes I made were more for consistency than
anything else. The make target would simply warn, and there would
be no problems like the ones you describe.

> That means, of course, that the documentation should be part of the
> tarball.
> 
> Does somebody volunteer for a "tarball-ready" or "bootstrap" or
> similar target in Makefile.in of preview-latex and appropriate changes
> for dealing with missing or outdated makeinfo or Perl in configure.in?
> The Makefile target should probably also do most things currently done
> by ./autogen.sh.

What do you mean? Why? If perl is missing or makeinfo is missing there
is not much hope anyway. Or do you mean for generating a tarball with
README and so on? Probably. What you want is something that ensures that
all these are generated, including the docs. I'll have a look.

/JÅ