Many projects confine the large-scale documents to only be
built when the tools are available. This can be checked in
configure.ac and flags set. Additionally, they often only do
those docs with "make docs/dvi/ps/pdf/info".
I'd hate to see detail lost just because a few noobs can't
install the right packages.
Well have managed to get the build system to fully configure/compile under
Cygwin on Windows so I would have thought it should not be too hard for many
others - especially on a UNIX variant. :))
However it would be nice if the configure process could detect the presence
or absence of the required doc tools and alter behaviour accordingly. In the
past I have resorted to editing the makefile in the doc dir so that it does
nothing to get around these problems.
YMMV
Alex