Re: [PATCH] texi: info files can be generated in the builddir

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 01/02/2013 01:06 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> And here is the patch deprecating the "CLEANFILES hack".  This too is
> for maint, and scheduled to appear in Automake 1.13.2.  I will push
> it with together with the patch introducing the new 'info-in-builddir'
> option, tomorrow.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stefano
> 
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> From c1a8f56295d9c1621c65de28400cd1d93f037063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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> From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 00:33:42 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] texi: deprecate hack about info files in CLEANFILES variables
> 
> For quite a long time, Automake has been implementing an undocumented
> hack which ensured that '.info' files which appeared to be cleaned (by
> e.g. being listed in the CLEANFILES or DISTCLEANFILES variables) were
> built in the builddir rather than in the srcdir; this hack was introduced
> to ensure better backward-compatibility with packages such as Texinfo,
> which did things like:
> 
>     info_TEXINFOS = texinfo.txi info-stnd.texi info.texi
>     DISTCLEANFILES = texinfo texinfo-* info*.info*
>     # Do not create info files for distribution.
>     dist-info:
>         @:
> 
> in order not to distribute .info files.
> 
> Now that we have the 'info-in-builddir' option that explicitly causes
> generated '.info' files to be placed in the builddir, this hack should
> be longer necessary, so we deprecate it with runtime warnings.  It is
> scheduled to be removed altogether in Automake 1.14.
> 
> * automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): Raise proper runtime warnings
> if the hack is triggered.
> * NEWS: Update.
> * t/txinfo28.sh: Adjust.
> * t/txinfo23.sh: Likewise.
> * t/txinfo25.sh: Adjust and extend.
> * t/txinfo24.sh: Likewise.
> 
Merged into maint.  This change will appear in Automake 1.13.2.

Regards,
  Stefano