Re: Using Org as the source format to generate org.texi

[Phillip Lord]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> I assume that we'd add something like this to doc/misc/Makefile.in:
>>
>> EXEEXT = @EXEEXT@
>> EMACS = ../src/emacs$(EXEEXT)
>> EMACSOPT = -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp
>> emacs = EMACSLOADPATH= '$(EMACS)' $(EMACSOPT)
>>
>> $(srcdir)/org.texi: $(srcdir)/org-manual.org
>>     $(AM_V_GEN)$(emacs) -l something --eval '(something)' something
>>
>> Some other tweaking will be needed, but the crucial thing is to get
>> that last line right.
>
> Note that this will make info generation depend on the existence of
> src/emacs, when it was previously independent.

Which would shove generation of the documentation till after dumping. I
don't know enough about make to work out whether this would be for just
org.org or for all the texi.


> Also, if any other manual made the same change, it would prevent
> bootstrapping Emacs without Org present (eg if the idea to include elpa
> packages in Emacs releases ever goes anywhere, and it's desired to stop
> duplicating Org in the Emacs repo; an idea which still makes complete
> sense to me).

Confused on this one. bootstrapping needs the documentation to be complete?

Phil