On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> 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
