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texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11146: closed (texinfo: could automake start using the
 '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:06:02 +0000

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Cc: texinfo-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi
	and pdf rules?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:30:34 +0200

Severity: wishlist
thanks

Hello everybody.

Reading the texi2dvi manpage, I've stumbled on this interesting bit of
information:

  --tidy:  compile in a local *.t2d directory, where the auxiliary files are
           left.  Output files are copied back to the original file.
  ...

  Using the `tidy' mode brings several advantages:

    -  the current directory is not cluttered with plethora of temporary
       files.

    -  clutter can be even reduced using --build-dir=dir: all the *.t2d
       directories are stored there.

    -  if the compilation fails, the previous state of the output file is
       preserved.

    -  PDF and DVI compilation are kept in separate subdirectories preventing
       any possibility of auxiliary file incompatibility.

I think it would be nice if automake started to use the '--tidy' option of
texi2vi in its PDF and DVI generation from .texi files.

WDYT?  Most importantly, is the '--tidy' option supported by all recently-ish
Texinfo releases, or has it been introduced too recently to mandate its use
in Automake-generated recipes?

Regards,
  Stefano

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: 11146-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11146: texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option
	in its dvi and pdf rules?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:01:08 +0200

On 04/04/2012 11:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
>> I'll thus apply to two attached patches to master in a couple of days
>> if there is no objection.
>>
> Pushed now.
>
And the proposal for using '--tidy' in Automake 1.13 has been (basically)
implemented as part of this commit:

  <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=205c7572>

Actually, we ended up using per-manual and per-format '--build-dir' options, to
work around a bug still present in Texinfo 4.13 (but fixed in CVS Texinfo) that
could cause racy failures in parallel builds; but the effect of such option is
similar to the one we wanted to obtain using '--tidy'.  The commit message of
that change should explain in more details.

I'm thus closing this bug report.

Regards,
  Stefano

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