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#8289
distcheck and make dvi
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Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:34:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 8289 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
<Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> wrote:
>> Another possible change, in addition to messing with the documentation,
>> would be to make the "dvi" a variable that such non-dvi-generating
>> people can override with "pdf" if they wish. Then they could get the
>> benefit of the check in a clean way without forcing .eps. Or maybe
>> dvi: pdf
>> would have the same effect? I'm not sure.
>
> Well, 'dvi: pdf' might help the distcheck to succeed, but generally, if
> I run 'make dvi' then what I'd like is DVI not PDF output. The latter
> is not convertible into the former. Enhancing distcheck to just not
> bother checking dvi output and rather test PDF output seems like another
> good alternative.
Not only does this feel like a hack, but I'd worry that it might
violate the GNU coding standards, to which automake-generated
makefiles are meant to comply?
-- Jack
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