On 04/01/2012 10:49 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > References: > <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11146> > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2012-04/msg00002.html> > > On 04/01/2012 03:11 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 04/01/2012 02:30 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >>> Most importantly, is the '--tidy' option supported by all recently-ish >>> Texinfo releases, or has it been introduced too recently to mandate its >>> use in Automake-generated recipes? >>> >> I'll answer myself on this, by quoting the Texinfo NEWS file: >> >> 4.9 (29 June 2007) >> * GPLv3. >> * texi2dvi: >> . new mode --build=tidy which supports compilation in a separate >> directory, where intermediate files are preserved. >> >> So the option is almost five years old, and thus old enough to be >> required in Automake 1.12. >> > On a second thought, bumping the requirement is something better done > for Automake 1.13, after having given proper warnings in the NEWS file. > For Automake 1.12, we might simply explicitly add the '--clean' option > to the texi2dvi invocation. > > I'll thus apply to two attached patches to master in a couple of days > if there is no objection. > Pushed now.
Regards, Stefano
