Re: texinfo and the NLS problems

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> writes:

    Philipp> As it's now biting me, I finally volunteer to do that
    Philipp> work (which doesn't seem that unusual a way such work is
    Philipp> done :).

Thank you!  It will be great to have that stuff out of the tree.

    Philipp> But in order to do the work, I need a recap of how the
    Philipp> make machinery should look like after the removal,
    Philipp> i.e. how should it react when it either finds no or
    Philipp> outdated texinfo tools. The only thing I remembered is,
    Philipp> that releases and possibly snapshots should contain
    Philipp> preformatted info pages. Could you by any chance fill in
    Philipp> my voids?

If the tools are unavailable, or too old, we should not try to build
info pages.  That is probably most easily accomplished by autoconf'ing
texinfo, and then replacing `texinfo' with `echo' or some such.  You
also want to make sure `make install' can handle what's going on.

For releases, we'll generate the TeXinfo, along with Bison,
etc. stuff.

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