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distcheck and make dvi

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Subject: bug#8289: closed (Re: bug#8289: distcheck and make dvi)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 01:32:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#8289: distcheck and make dvi

which was filed against the automake package, has been closed.

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 8289-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8289: distcheck and make dvi
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 19:31:15 -0600

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From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: distcheck and make dvi
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:33:14 GMT

Hi Ralf and all,

make distcheck runs make dvi.  If an author has only made .pdf's with
images, this will cause a surprising error that .eps files are missing.
(Someone just wrote me about this.)

I see the issue has been noted before, e.g.:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/10304

I suggest that the workaround Ralf suggests there -- an empty make rule
for dvi: -- be explicitly documented.  Another (often preferable) option
is to create and distribute the .eps files, of course.

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.

Thanks,
Karl

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