Re: lispref installation is broken

[Richard Stallman]

    The inconsistency lies in the fact that the DVI is built locally, and
    the info file in $srcdir/../info (which, being part of the source tree,
    may be read-only).

That's the way Emacs handles all info files, so I don't think it is
wrong.

    The brokenness lies in the fact that the `install' target then copies
    the info files from the local directory (where they don't exist) to
    the $infodir directory (= $srcdir/../info) where they already are.

The `install' target seems to be meant for use in a separate distro of
the Emacs Lisp manual, if you make one.  It is not used in Emacs
installation as far as I can see.  What was your occasion for using
that target?

I think these are more or less the right changes to make for the
sake of such a separate distro.  I am not sure that feature is
worth supporting, so I haven't tested it.


*** Makefile.in 06 Nov 2004 22:45:06 -0500      1.29
--- Makefile.in 20 Nov 2004 16:36:19 -0500      
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*** 106,116 ****
--- 106,121 ----
  elisp.dvi: $(srcs)
        $(TEXI2DVI) -I $(srcdir) $(srcdir)/elisp.texi
  
+ # This is for use in a separate distro of the Emacs Lisp manual.
  install: elisp
        $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(infodir)
        cp elisp elisp-[1-9] elisp-[1-9][0-9] $(infodir)
        ${INSTALL_INFO} --info-dir=${infodir} ${infodir}/elisp
  
+ # This is for use in a separate distro of the Emacs Lisp manual.
+ elisp: $(srcs)
+       $(MAKEINFO) -I. -I$(srcdir) $(srcdir)/elisp.texi
+ 
  clean:
        rm -f *.toc *.aux *.log *.cp *.cps *.fn *.fns *.tp *.tps \
                *.vr *.vrs *.pg *.pgs *.ky *.kys
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*** 121,134 ****
  maintainer-clean: clean
        rm -f elisp elisp-[1-9] elisp-[1-9][0-9] elisp.dvi elisp.oaux
  
! dist: elisp elisp.dvi
        -rm -rf temp
        -mkdir temp
        -mkdir temp/$(manual)
        -ln $(srcdir)/README $(srcdir)/configure.in $(srcdir)/configure \
   $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcs) \
   $(srcdir)/../man/texinfo.tex \
!  elisp.dvi elisp.aux elisp.??s elisp elisp-[1-9] elisp-[1-9][0-9] \
   temp/$(manual)
        -(cd temp/$(manual); rm -f mkinstalldirs)
        cp $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs temp/$(manual)
--- 126,140 ----
  maintainer-clean: clean
        rm -f elisp elisp-[1-9] elisp-[1-9][0-9] elisp.dvi elisp.oaux
  
! dist: $(infodir)/elisp elisp.dvi
        -rm -rf temp
        -mkdir temp
        -mkdir temp/$(manual)
        -ln $(srcdir)/README $(srcdir)/configure.in $(srcdir)/configure \
   $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcs) \
   $(srcdir)/../man/texinfo.tex \
!  elisp.dvi elisp.aux elisp.??s \
!  $(infodir)/elisp $(infodir)/elisp-[1-9] $(infodir)/elisp-[1-9][0-9] \
   temp/$(manual)
        -(cd temp/$(manual); rm -f mkinstalldirs)
        cp $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs temp/$(manual)