CVS-19990122: PATCH for texinfo

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Sat, 30 January 1999, 08:34:34, law@hurl.cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 >   In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9901272314480.35-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>yo
 > u write:
 >   > In general, this texinfo stuff seems to cause quite some problems,
 >   > so it may be useful to consider the various options we have:
 >   > 
 >   >  1. Remove texinfo from the egcs tree and require a current version of
 >   >     texinfo to be installed.
 >   >  
 >   >     This will solve all problems of this kind, however it'll make egcs
 >   >     more "expensive". In addition we will have to check that the installed
 >   >     version is sufficiently up-to-date.
 >   > 
 >   >  2. Remove texinfo from the egcs tree and install the documentation only
 >   >     if texinfo is found.
 >   > 
 >   >  3. Keep texinfo and try to fix problems. That means, for example, that we
 >   >     will have to keep the util subdirectory in order to get install-info
 >   >     and install your patch (or something similar).
 >   > 
 >   >  4. Remove texinfo from the egcs tree and require it for CVS users, but
 >   >     deliver pre-compiled *.info files in snapshots and releases.
 >   > 
 >   >     (That won't solve the need for install-info, though -- in the absence
 >   >     of an installed version of install-info -- we could simply copy the
 >   >     *.info files.)
 > I would lean towards #4.  With the caveat that we don't bother with
 > install-info.  I just don't see the benefits outweigh the need to add more
 > complication to the makefile.
 > 
 > One thing I would like to look at between egcs-1.2 and egcs-1.3 is to greatly
 > simplify gcc/Makefile.  IMHO, it's not managable in its current state.  Many
 > things are obsolete.  Others can be made obsolete by updating some targets.
 > 
 > Once we clean up gcc/Makefile we should proceed up a level and look at the
 > toplevel configury and Makefiles.
 > 
 > I guess in general, I find that we've got a mess of code, some of which is
 > merely working around problems with work arounds of a bad design.
 > 
 > jeff

While I agree to this long-term strategy wrt texinfo, how about my initial
patch?

1999-01-23  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
 
 	* util/Makefile.am (noinst_PROGRAMS): Renamed from "bin_PROGRAMS"
	to avoid installing anything.
	(noinst_SCRIPTS): Likewise.
 	* util/Makefile.in: Regenerate using automake-1.3.
 
manfred