Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Moved aclocal.m4 and macros.texi up

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-06-04) writes:
>
>> The checks for missing macros in configure seem pretty pointless by
>> now to me: they are probably not used consistently, and apart from
>> that, they won't help with checking out from CVS, and in the tarball,
>> at least the default documentation has already been produced.
>
> AFAIR Jan-Åke used to be stuck on an outdated Texinfo installation
> which was not aware of the macros we are currently checking for
> availability.  I don't know if this is still the case.
>
>> Should we remove the checks?  If not, somebody has to take the
>> responsibility and make sure that their results are applied
>> everywhere.
>
> AFAICS macros.texi is included in all (master) Texinfo files.  And
> @MAKEINFO_MACROS@ is part of both doc/Makefile.in and
> preview/doc/Makefile.in.

But it is not used everywhere where, say, TEXINFOINCLUDES is applied.
And it would seem to be relevant in all those cases.

That's why I suspect that it has been some time since somebody
actually needed those checks: it appears to me like they might not
have been doing their job for a while, and nobody noticed.

I guess we'll have to wait for Jan-Åke's comment.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum