Re: File missing from the git: texinfo/texinfo.tex

Paul Smith
2013-10-23T17:00:17Z

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 10:51 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Two, pretend the problem away and check in the file now.

> I don't really have a preference. However it would be good to decide
> soon. So, please send email today.

For what it's worth, in GNU make I don't archive this file at all;
instead I retrieve it dynamically from the gnulib repository. I do this
with a bunch of files, such as po files and other things. This forces
people who want to build from Git repos to run a "make update" rule
first but it's nice because I don't need to keep up with whatever's the
latest upstream. Unless you have a need for some specialized version of
texinfo.tex this might be something to consider.

git-url = http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit
target = $(patsubst get-%,%,$@)

gnulib-url = $(git-url)/gnulib.git/plain/build-aux/$(patsubst get-config/%,%,$@)
get-config/texinfo.tex:
@echo $(WGET) $(gnulib-url) -O $(target) \
&& $(WGET) $(gnulib-url) -O $(target).t \
&& $(move_if_change)