Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Yes, but the Debian auctex package needs latex for installation, because >>> it reruns "./configure", which fails without latex. >> >> Because LaTeX (and other stuff) is used for generating the >> documentation. But it is probably not a hard requirement for the >> finished package. > > Then a --no-generate-docs option would be nice.
The tarball comes with pregenerated docs. If you don't touch their sources, they are not regenerated. One can also, if one really must, pass LATEX=: PDFLATEX=: and similar to configure, and it will then pretend regenerating the docs. -- David Kastrup
