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Re: Building without makeinfo
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: Building without makeinfo |
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15 Mar 2002 09:03:40 +0000 |
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>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
Marius> Conceptually, guile-procedures.txt is dependent on the configuration
Marius> of Guile. So, strictly speaking, we can't distribute the 'right'
Marius> guile-procedures.txt file.
I see - good point.
Marius> But, we can probably distribute one that is almost always right, but
Marius> we have to be careful when generating it.
Marius> I.e. when Guile has been configured --without-threads,
Marius> guile-procedures.txt wont contain the docs for the threading
Marius> functions.
Marius> So, when we have a good way to create a default
guile-procedures.txt,
Marius> then I'd say we should distribute it.
Agreed.
This reminds me of something else. I believe we were going to write
some instructions to distributors on how to build a generic Guile for
including in a distribution. Has that been done yet?
(FWIW, I would specify `--with-threads'.)
Neil