Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:28:43PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Werner Lemberg wrote:
>>> Instead, you might contribute a patch to implement a >>> `--without-doc' configure switch that completely disables the >>> generation of documentation files. :-) >> Why would somebody ever want to build a piece of software without >> the documentation belonging to it? > To be able to build binaries from the git on platforms that don't have > the necessary tools. Admittedly, for groff this is probably overkill, > since binaries for netpbm are available, but for other packages this > can be quite useful. For example, my ttfautohint project previously > needed a small filter for Pandoc. Pandoc is written in Haskell, and > this filter had to be in Haskell, too. Even if there was a Pandoc > binary for Windows, I needed a complete Haskell environment to compile > this tiny filter ??? more than 200 MByte package stuff to produce a > 20kByte executable (if linked dynamically)... > > Of course, a `--without-doc' option shouldn't affect man pages, which > are generated by simple sed commands. Ah, i see, thanks for the explanation (and also to Peter, who mentioned another point i didn't see at first). Yours, Ingo
