Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-26 Thread Eric Blake
Bruno Haible clisp.org> writes: > > Is this the sort of patch better suited to an upstream fix in install.texi > > in autoconf (ie. fold the @firstparagraphindent into the .texi file, > > rather than creating a temporary file in the gnulib Makefile rule)? > > I don't think so: The install.texi f

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Haible
> Fine by me. I also changed doc/Makefile to run makeinfo in an English locale, regardless of the user's locale (otherwise, in some versions of makeinfo, it generates localized some German sentences in the doc if the user is in a German locale). 2008-08-26 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Is this the sort of patch better suited to an upstream fix in install.texi > in autoconf (ie. fold the @firstparagraphindent into the .texi file, > rather than creating a temporary file in the gnulib Makefile rule)? I don't think so: The install.texi file is also included by th

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > ! { echo '@firstparagraphindent insert'; cat $<; } > tmp.texi > ! -$(MAKEINFO) --plaintext --no-warn tmp.texi > $@ > ! rm -f tmp.texi > > Fine by me. Applied.

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 8/25/2008 5:24 PM: > > Yes, thanks. This gives us the freedom to discuss the formatting details > of this file :-) > > Currently, 'makeinfo' produces an INSTALL file which has the first paragraph > in every section uninde

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Karl Berry
! { echo '@firstparagraphindent insert'; cat $<; } > tmp.texi ! -$(MAKEINFO) --plaintext --no-warn tmp.texi > $@ ! rm -f tmp.texi Fine by me.

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > will (manually) generate INSTALL from install.texi via a rule in > gnulib/doc/Makefile. > > Hope that suits. I couldn't think of a better way. Yes, thanks. This gives us the freedom to discuss the formatting details of this file :-) Currently, 'makeinfo' produces an INSTALL

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-25 Thread Karl Berry
grabbing upstream changes from Autoconf to gnulib's doc/INSTALL? Since, as you mentioned, autoconf no longer provides INSTALL in the source repo, I committed install.texi to gnulib, sync against that, and will (manually) generate INSTALL from install.texi via a rule in gnulib/doc/Makefile.

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 8/22/2008 7:10 PM: > Karl, do you have a cron job for grabbing upstream changes from Autoconf > to gnulib's doc/INSTALL? > > Yes, there is supposed to be. I think it wasn't showing up because once > again the sour

Re: Updated INSTALL from Autoconf

2008-08-22 Thread Karl Berry
Karl, do you have a cron job for grabbing upstream changes from Autoconf to gnulib's doc/INSTALL? Yes, there is supposed to be. I think it wasn't showing up because once again the source project changed to git and I didn't know. I'll fix that, meanwhile, feel free to push the new INSTA