Re: Building without makeinfo

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

    Marius> Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration
    Marius> of Guile.  So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right'
    Marius> guile-procedures.txt file.

I see - good point.

    Marius> But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but
    Marius> we have to be careful when generating it.

    Marius> I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads,
    Marius> guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading
    Marius> functions.

    Marius> So, when we have a good way to create a default 
guile-procedures.txt,
    Marius> then I'd say we should distribute it.

Agreed.

This reminds me of something else.  I believe we were going to write
some instructions to distributors on how to build a generic Guile for
including in a distribution.  Has that been done yet?

(FWIW, I would specify `--with-threads'.)

        Neil