> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:03:25 +0000
> From: Heime <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> On Saturday, April 25th, 2026 at 7:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:09:07 +0000
> > > From: Heime <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > I want to add the production of pdf and html.  How would one
> > > change this makefile?
> > 
> > You can see how this is done forEmacs by looking into the
> > subdirectories of the doc/ directory in the Emacs source tree.  For
> > example, in doc/emacs/.
> 
> I can see that you specify all the .texi source files.  I am using
> rule where I do not specify the files.  What is the reason for doing
> so, and I do the same?
> 
> $(trgdir)/%.info: $(srcdir)/%.texi

This is okay if your manual has a single source file.  The Emacs
manual is a single Info file built from many source files, so the
above rule would not work.

> Also noticed you use texi2pdf.  makeinfo should be the same as 
> texi2any, why is texi2pdf preferred?  I was going to use makeinfo 
> to do everything.

Yes, you can use makeinfo for everything.

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