GNU bug report logs - #7104
23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:21:50 +0200

This concerns the stand-alone version of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/texi/elisp.texi.tar.gz>

The README file claims:
   * This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
   ** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'.
   ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'.

However, the Makefile is not functional:

$ tar xf elisp.texi.tar.gz 
$ cd lispref
$ make info
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `../../info/elisp'.  Stop.
$ make elisp.dvi
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `elisp.dvi'.  Stop.
$ make elisp.pdf
make: *** No rule to make target `/home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.2/doc/lispref/abbrevs.texi', needed by `elisp.pdf'.  Stop.
$ 

Message #8 received at 7104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 7104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7104: 23.2;
	Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:49:44 -0400

Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> However, the Makefile is not functional:

This can be fixed, but I wonder if it is worth bothering.
I think it's fine just to say "the source for these manuals is
distributed with Emacs" and to remove those tarfiles.

Message #11 received at 7104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7104 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7104: 23.2;
	Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:09:18 +0200

>>>>> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010, Glenn Morris wrote:

>> However, the Makefile is not functional:

> This can be fixed, but I wonder if it is worth bothering.
> I think it's fine just to say "the source for these manuals is
> distributed with Emacs" and to remove those tarfiles.

Another obvious solution would be to exclude the broken Makefile from
the tarball (run "make distclean" in the Emacs top-level dir?).

BTW, Gentoo still has an app-doc/elisp-manual package which uses
these tarballs. But it wouldn't be a big issue for us if you removed
them. (They aren't very distro-friendly anyway, since they are
unversioned. Until elisp-manual-21-2.8.tar.gz they used to have a
version as part of their filename.)

Message #16 received at 7104-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 7104-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7104: 23.2;
	Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:39:14 -0400

Fixed the files, added `make dist' rules in trunk.

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