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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "all" depend on "info"
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 02:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zrqa6h0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190406204834.23321-1-tom@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey	on Sat, 6 Apr 2019 14:48:34 -0600)

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Sat,  6 Apr 2019 14:48:34 -0600
> 
> This patch changes doc/Makefile.in so that the info pages are built by
> "make all".  As a point of reference, Automake has essentially always
> worked this way.  According to the Automake manual (I didn't
> double-check) this is required by the GNU coding standards.
> 
> The first time I sent this patch, I mentioned that I wanted to look
> into some existing bugs in bugzilla about missing "makeinfo".
> However, today I tried and I discovered that BFD requires makeinfo,
> and builds its info file as part of "all".  So, I think this change
> doesn't worsen the situation for users in any way, and can simply go
> in.

Fine with me, but did you verify the prerequisites won't cause the
manual rebuilt when not necessary?  IOW, does INFO_DEPS include
anything except the Texinfo sources?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-07  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-06 20:48 Tom Tromey
2019-04-07  2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-07 23:04   ` Tom Tromey

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