texi/Makefile.in questions

texi/Makefile.in questions

[Pavel Janík ml.]

Hi,

I'm looking around Gnus and am really not comfortable with the build process
around this great elisp... So I will start to clean things a little bit. First
- the docs - texi/Makefile.in:

1. the variable VPATH is not used in the Makefile. Is it used somewhere else?
   configure says something about Sun make?
2. What is the reason for XINFOSWI and INFOSWI? I think that the former should
   be used for xemacs, but it is not.
3. PDF files. Let me say that I do not use LaTeX. I use only plain for several
   years, but I know some basic principles of LaTeX and also I made some
   changes for pdfTeX (support for alpha in PNG, TIFF etc.). Why I'm writing
   this? Cause I do not like the approach current docs is being built. There
   are special files for inclusion of EPS files? Why? As I know LaTeX can
   include EPS with includegraphics from graphics package. If it uses it we
   can simply make PDF version without almost any change. BTW - I think that
   the people who can produce PDF with our current Makefile is king...
4. gnuslogo.refcard is useless because there is the same picture in
   ps/gnus-big-logo.eps. LaTeX can scale it.

I will not change anything before you tell me that we should change this and
when the CVS people tell me that they will accept this changes...

This is really annoying:

--- ../../gnus/texi/Makefile.in Wed Apr 26 21:08:51 2000
+++ ./Makefile.in       Wed Apr 26 22:04:44 2000
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@
        rm -f gnus.*.bak *.ky *.cp *.fn *.cps *.kys *.log *.aux *.dvi *.vr \
        *.tp *.toc *.pg gnus.latexi *.aux *.[cgk]idx \
        gnus.ilg gnus.ind gnus.[cgk]ind gnus.idx \
-       gnus.tmptexi *.tmplatexi gnus.tmplatexi1 texput.log *.orig *.rej \
+       gnustmp.texi *.tmplatexi gnus.tmplatexi1 texput.log *.orig *.rej \
        gnus.latexi*~* tmp/*.ps xface.tex picons.tex smiley.tex *.latexi

 makeinfo:



-- 
Pavel Janík ml.
Pavel.Janik@inet.cz

Re: texi/Makefile.in questions

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janík ml.) writes:

> I'm looking around Gnus and am really not comfortable with the build
> process around this great elisp... So I will start to clean things a
> little bit. First - the docs - texi/Makefile.in:

Well, Gnus isn't really really meant to be distributed separately.
It's part of the Emacsen distributions.  Therefore the makefiles are
really sloppy.

> 1. the variable VPATH is not used in the Makefile. Is it used somewhere else?
>    configure says something about Sun make?

Hm...

> 3. PDF files. Let me say that I do not use LaTeX. I use only plain
> for several years, but I know some basic principles of LaTeX and
> also I made some changes for pdfTeX (support for alpha in PNG, TIFF
> etc.). Why I'm writing this? Cause I do not like the approach
> current docs is being built. There are special files for inclusion
> of EPS files?

I don't quite follow you here.  What special files?

>    Why? As I know LaTeX can
>    include EPS with includegraphics from graphics package. If it uses it we
>    can simply make PDF version without almost any change. BTW - I think that
>    the people who can produce PDF with our current Makefile is king...

I can do it.  :-)

The tool chain to produce all the different forms of the Gnus manual
probably only exists on this machine.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen