GNU bug report logs - #13351
Dropping support for split '.info' files in mainline Automake

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13351-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13351: [IMPORTANT] Dropping support for split '.info' files
	in mainline Automake
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:47:40 +0100

On 01/12/2013 04:58 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 10:55 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 03/01/2013 21:53, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto:
>>
>>> So I believe we could follow suit with Automake-NG (see commit dd603e21,
>>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-ng/2012-08/msg00147.html>)
>>> and have Automake-generated makefiles pass the '--no-split' option
>>> unconditionally to makeinfo invocations (starting from Automake 1.14).
>>> This would allow some nice simplifications in our Texinfo recipe
>>> (exemplified by the Automake-NG patch referenced above), and offer an
>>> automatic fix for bug#12320.
>>>
>>> Another *very* good aspect of such a change is that it would be 100%
>>> transparent to the Automake users.
>>>
>>> Thoughts, opinions, objections?
>>
>> *This* is a change I support.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> Glad to hear that.  Since so far I've received only positive feedback, I
> will proceed to push the change to master in a couple of days if nobody
> objects.
> 
Pushed now.  I'm thus closing this bug report.

Regards,
  Stefano

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