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Re: PATCH: new script gcc/doc/install.texi2html


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> If the generated HTML files should go in the source tarballs, then the
> way to accomplish that is to make running this script part of `make
> bootstrap'.  That seems pretty sensible to me; we might as well build
> all the documentation as part of `make bootstrap'.  It doesn't take
> long, and it's not like it's very big; the .info files add up to about
> 30K.
> 
> What do you think about that?

This would make sense; we have the configure support for detecting
suitable makeinfo versions, but the script would then need more attention
to portability (e.g., can we assume a POSIX mkdir that supports -p?).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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