Re: Building without makeinfo

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> However, wouldn't a better fix be to include a prebuilt
> guile-procedures.txt in the distribution?  If I understand correctly,
> all we would need to do is
> 
> - add guile-procedures.txt to EXTRA_DIST
> 
> - remove the `else' branch of the `if HAVE_MAKEINFO' block.
> 
> What do you think?

Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration
of Guile.  So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right'
guile-procedures.txt file.

But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but
we have to be careful when generating it.

I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads,
guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading
functions.

So, when we have a good way to create a default guile-procedures.txt,
then I'd say we should distribute it.