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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-25 03:00:48 +0000 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-25 03:00:48 +0000 |
commit | d232e1107d60e7689e706bee9705f26745ae8b9e (patch) | |
tree | f9ac3303fdb36c2eca1872286615c0931d952476 /macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking | |
parent | 94c2e367c3690be2a3c715b4577c81200652ad81 (diff) |
CTAN sync 201909250300
Diffstat (limited to 'macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking')
-rw-r--r-- | macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking b/macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking index a6062b2aa2..9b658086fb 100644 --- a/macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking +++ b/macros/texinfo/texinfo/README-hacking @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ and then, for example, and then make -After the initial autogen && configure, simply running make should suffice. - The -C tells configure to cache test results, which usually speeds things up a bit. @@ -41,6 +39,17 @@ Other -W options can be useful too, and patches are welcome to resolve diagnostics; however, removing all possible warning messages, or warnings with nonfree compilers, is explicitly not a goal. +After the initial autogen && configure, simply running make should suffice. + +Gettext or help2man not installed do not cause configure to fail, +though configure shows if they were found. This is because a release +does not require those tools. Indeed, both prerequisites and +result files are shipped in a release, such that the tools are only +needed if the prerequisite changed. The tools are needed when building +from developpement sources, however, as result files are not under version +control. Make will fail with an explicit missing command for help2man, +and with a command not found error for a Gettext utility command. + Running make in one particular subdirectory is possible, for example make -C info. However there are interdependencies between the subdirectories, notably on gnulib, so if you don't want to run "make", |