On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > All together, for a general fix, my suggestion is to simply replace the > hardwired "dvi" string with a new variable name, like > $(AM_DISTCHECK_DOC) or some such (no idea if that's a reasonable name, > but you get the idea), which defaults to dvi and which users can > override either with "pdf" or with some no-op target. Which in turn > would need to be created/documented if one doesn't exist already.
New automake options? Something like: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign distcheck-doc-pdf no-distcheck-doc-dvi]) > jack> violate the GNU coding standards, to which automake-generated > makefiles are meant to comply? > > The dvi: pdf kludge was a user override. The coding standards aren't an > issue in that case. Good to know. -- Jack