Hi, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:08:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Given that the GCS suggests installing only the Info version of the >> manual by default (info "(standards) Standard Targets") > >> What do you think? > > I think that's a stupid suggestion. It would be nice to express your ideas in a polite way. The point was about achieving a reproducible build, not about droping the man page. A constructive suggestion would have been better. Nonetheless when reading the actual bug report, the repoducibility problem seems to concern only the html and pdf. So keeping the 'text' prerequisite in the 'install' rule seems reasonable. Ludo: Am I missing something? > The de facto standard for "make" followed "make install" on a > Unix-like system is to install man pages. If there's an info page, I > have no objection to installing that as well, but to omit the standard > man pages by default is ridiculous. For more GNU standards background in regards of man pages, see: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Man-Pages -- Mathieu Lirzin