Hi Alfred. On 03/31/2012 11:08 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > - Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that > they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of > course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that > builds the package from a tarball those files should *not* be > rebuilt, hence there is no problem even if the user's srcdir is > read-only. > > This has always been the right way to do things. > > - Don't distribute the generated info files. [...] In this > case, the user will have to to have the 'makeinfo' program > available to build them. > > Please don't do this, it causes all kinds of headaches, like the small > fact that makeinfo will now be required to bootstrap. > Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in this regard: the two setups described above are both already supported by the current automake implementation (but the last one is not encouraged, even though it makes perfect sense in some *rare* situations). I was just pointing out that you have to choose one of these setups -- so, if you want to distribute info files, you must accept to have them build in the srcdir.
Regards, Stefano