On Fri, Jan 6, 2017, at 00:37, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 04.01.2017 um 21:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: > > What I would like to achieve is that the doc/Makefile that is > > the result of ./configure contains rules that only try to build > > nano.info and nano.html from nano.texi /if/ makeinfo is available, > > That's what the 'missing' mechanism does automatically already. So the > only thing you need to do for that is to have nano.info and nano.html > files in your tarball.
Okay, that works now. > > and only tries to install nano.info and nano.html if /either/ they > > already exist or makeinfo is available. > > Again, all you have to do is distribute the files, and they'll be used > if they can't be rebuilt. True. But if they are not distributed (like in git), I would like the install rules to be just skipped /if/ makeinfo is not available. So, if nano.info and nano.html are already there, install them, but if they are not and 'makeinfo' is absent, don't even /try/ to build them. I don't see how I can achieve that. > You will have to change the way you call makeinfo to let 'missing' > actually do its job, though :-P Thanks for the hint. :) The specific rule was not needed, as automake provides it by default. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free
