Subject: Re: bug#7104: 23.2; Makefile in stand-alone Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is broken

From: Ulrich Mueller <[email-masked]>
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.)