Re: [Gnucap-devel] New gnucap development snapshot

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:
> There is a new development snapshot of gnucap available.


> You can get it at: 
> Official site:
> http://www.gnucap.org/devel/gnucap-2006-07-08.tar.gz
> Mirrors:
> http://www.geda.seul.org/dist/gnucap-2006-07-08.tar.gz

cool.  I was updating the NetBSD package and ran into 3 minor things 
that I'm somewhat puzzled by.

Did you do anything to the tar file after running 'make dist'?  I'm 
asking because the man/gnucap-man.dvi file doesn't seem to be in the tar 
file but as near as I can tell from man/Makefile.am, it should be.  The 
result is 'make install' fails if I don't have latex installed (the 
build system is set up to use latex if found but otherwise issue 
warnings and use the .dvi file which ships in the .tar.gz).

The second question is if your intention is to not have the html manual 
installed with 'make install'.  By commenting out the SUBDIRS= html line 
in man/Makefile.am, the html manual doesn't get installed.  Whats wierd 
is by commenting that out, the html manual shouldn't have even ended up 
in the .tar.gz file yet I see it there.

My last question is really an observation that test/==/Makefile.in seems 
to have been generated by a really old automake (1.4) while all the 
others are from a modern (1.9.6) automake.  I'm not sure how this one 
got singled out.

I can try to investigate all of these but don't want to spend time on it 
if the .tar.gz file was modified after creation with 'make dist' or 
(better yet) 'make distcheck'.

Thanks
-Dan