Re: The docs weren't building for me...

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Quoting Sam Roberts <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> in particular in the generated makefile version.texi should depend on
> stamp-vti, but the right hand side of the dependency rule is commented
> out, leading to me not getting version.texi built.
> 
> The relevant lines from doc/texinfo/Makefile are:
> 
> 
> $(srcdir)/version.texi: # $(srcdir)/stamp-vti
>   @:

This happens with automake 1.4 as well. Actually, that's not exactly a
comment. The corresponing line in Makefile.in reads:

$(srcdir)/version.texi: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ stamp-vti
        @:

./configure replaces @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ with '' when run with
--enable-maintainer-mode option, otherwise it replaces it with 
'#'. The idea behind this seems to be that only developers will be
willing to remake info files. The produced infos are included
in the distribution, so that end-users won't need any texinfo-related
rules.

-Sergey