* Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:28:59PM CET: > not bother checking dvi output and rather test PDF output seems > like another good alternative. > > I can't agree with that. That's trading DVI-generation problems for > PDF-generation problems. Believe me, there will be just as many if not > more. Any manual which has *only* eps files, for starters.
Right, I'm on the same page as you here: such a trade should be at the developer's discretion. > All together, for a general fix, my suggestion is to simply replace the > hardwired "dvi" string with a new variable name, like > $(AM_DISTCHECK_DOC) or some such (no idea if that's a reasonable name, > but you get the idea), which defaults to dvi and which users can > override either with "pdf" or with some no-op target. Which in turn > would need to be created/documented if one doesn't exist already. Something like that sounds sensible. Incidentally, Stefano already has a pending patch for some distcheck generalizations using variables; the change for this PR could look to use similar style. Cheers, Ralf
