Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> For many years requiring DVI has been unnecessary and even
> counterproductive.

+1

> -You can set the environment variables @env{MAKEINFO}, @env{TEXI2DVI},
> +You can set the environment variables @env{MAKEINFO}, @env{TEXI2PDF},
...
>  @example
>  ar bison cc flex install ld ldconfig lex
> -make makeinfo ranlib texi2dvi yacc
> +make makeinfo ranlib texi2pdf yacc
>  @end example
...
>  @example
>  $(AR) $(BISON) $(CC) $(FLEX) $(INSTALL) $(LD) $(LDCONFIG) $(LEX)
> -$(MAKE) $(MAKEINFO) $(RANLIB) $(TEXI2DVI) $(YACC)
> +$(MAKE) $(MAKEINFO) $(RANLIB) $(TEXI2PDF) $(YACC)
>  @end example

These changes where the ones I'm less confident about -- do we really
want to introduce new special cases like this?  What about simply
dropping TEXI2DVI and texi2dvi from gnustandards instead of introducing
texi2pdf and TEXI2PDF?

/Simon

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