Subject: bug#55969: Feature request: configure option to build Emacs without any documentation

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:50:41 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:34:38 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> said:

    Lars> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
    >> You don't need a configure option; just use
    >> 
    >> make -C src emacs
    >> 
    >> (used to work; haven't checked recently)

    Lars> Yes, I don't think a configuration option here will give us
    Lars> something substantially easier to work with during bisection.

    Lars> However, it might be nice to have a target in GNUmakefile for doing
    Lars> bisection that would allow you to say

    Lars> git checkout ...; git clean -dfx; make without-manuals

    Lars> that would run autogen/configure as normal, but then "make -C src emacs"
    Lars> instead of "make all"?

If this is for the purposes of historical bisection, then you'd need a
time machine to install those changes. 'git bisect' can take a script
to determine good/bad, so you'd just stick the appropriate commands in
there.

Robert
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