On Wed, Mar 19, 2014, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > I can't spot any problems with Steffen's 'touch gnu.eps' proposal to > > prevent build failure in the absence of the netpbm tools. Werner? > > Well, this *only* happens if you do a build from the git repository; > for this situation I still think that you should have all the tools. > > It's somehow bizarre to implement a `--with-doc=...' configuration > option that makes it possible to explicitly disable the compilation of > the examples, and at the same time to complain that > `--with-doc=examples' doesn't work because some tools are missing – we > are still talking about compiling from git! > > It's OK with me to mention this trick somewhere in a README, but > `touch gnu.eps' essentially means crippling the documentation, making > it incomplete. For this reason I vote `no'.
Steffen, Werner makes a good point. The README states explicitly that netpbm is needed to build directly from source. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
