Re: Bugs in installing...

Jan-=C5ke Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> 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 changes for dealing with missing or outdated makeinfo or Perl in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.

For generating preview-latex from CVS.  But we are talking about
generating preview-latex from the tarball.  And if the tarball
contains all relevant documentation (stuff that we have distributed
with a separate tar archive up to now for that purpose), makeinfo
and/or Perl are only required if you touch the respective source
files.

> Or do you mean for generating a tarball with README and so on?

Yup.  I think we do something like that for AUCTeX already.  Probably
not every thing, but most of it.

The AUCTeX procedure of generating a tarball right now is: use "cvs
export" with a tag name to get the right version tags, do ./autogen.sh
(which could possibly be replaced by just running autoconf), do a
./configure with arbitrary options, then run make to generate the
tarball.

This procedure is reasonably transparent and tolerable, even though it
means you actually have to run configure when all you want is getting
something that is not yet compiled.

> Probably. What you want is something that ensures that all these are
> generated, including the docs.

Quite so.

>  I'll have a look.

Thanks.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum