Re: Using Org as the source format to generate org.texi

[Glenn Morris]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> I assume that we'd add something like this to doc/misc/Makefile.in:
>
> EXEEXT = @EXEEXT@
> EMACS = ../src/emacs$(EXEEXT)
> EMACSOPT = -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp
> emacs = EMACSLOADPATH= '$(EMACS)' $(EMACSOPT)
>
> $(srcdir)/org.texi: $(srcdir)/org-manual.org
>     $(AM_V_GEN)$(emacs) -l something --eval '(something)' something
>
> Some other tweaking will be needed, but the crucial thing is to get
> that last line right.

Note that this will make info generation depend on the existence of
src/emacs, when it was previously independent.

Also, if any other manual made the same change, it would prevent
bootstrapping Emacs without Org present (eg if the idea to include elpa
packages in Emacs releases ever goes anywhere, and it's desired to stop
duplicating Org in the Emacs repo; an idea which still makes complete
sense to me).

(Just trying to list some items relevant to the "other tweaking" part.)