Re: html texinfo install?

[Bruce Korb]

Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:02:45PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> > If, as in Bruce's proposal, they explicitly say "I want HTML", when
> > there's no HTML in the distribution, that's one thing.  Making it happen
> > when they say "configure && make install", quite another.
> 
> BTW, this is another case like configure.ac and configure, where
> CVS scrambles the timestamps since foo.info sorts lexically
> before foo.texi.  I've found myself more than once having to

That's what the contrib/gcc_update script does:  handles the shortcomings
of CVS.  Package distributors cannot distribute a package with out of date
stamps and folks that draw generated sources from CVS have to understand
that CVS has some limitations.  Nothing new.

Ralph wrote:
> Bruce Korb writes:
> > Karl Berry wrote:
> > 
> > >     2.  Please make available enable/disable macros for each output type:
> > >         info, html, xml, ps, ...
> > > 
> > > I agree we could support all the formats (currently: info html xml
> > > docbook ps pdf plaintext) uniformly,
> > 
> > Good.
> 
> I would prefer a single --enable-texinfo-formats=[all,info,html,...]
> instead of dozens of individual options.

Me, too.  :-)

Cheers - Bruce