Re: RefTeX Merge

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

>>   The version and date strings for Lisp and Texinfo files of the
>>   standalone version is generated from the ChangeLog when make is run,
>>   so that it is always up-to-date, even for development versions.  The
>>   build process creates a reftex.el file with the version and autoload
>>   information and a version.texi file with the version and the date that
>>   is included in the main Texinfo file.  Is there something like this as
>>   well in Emacs?
>
> This is not really an option for Emacs, because the info and elc files
> are pre-built in release tarfiles. So people don't even need to have
> makeinfo installed to build Emacs. So you cannot generate parts of the
> *.texi files at build time. This is why eg doc/emacs/emacsver.texi is
> not generated by configure.

I'm being particularly dumb today and should probably be ignored.
Of course you could have such a rule if it ran only during the building
of the info files. (But it doesn't seem worth the effort to me.)