On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Martin Paljak <mar...@paljak.pri.ee> wrote:
> Does this actually break anything in real life, other than make distcheck?

Yes. Whatever broken during distcheck will probably break somewhere.
Major check of distcheck is separate build directory, this is used by
many builders.

> > But... the only dependency we require is xsltproc, so maybe we can
> > rethink this... Provided you agree that building the package with
> > --enable-doc or --enable-man requires xsltproc available on build
> > machine, we can remove all this useless generation and hacks.
>
> I think it is not a huge problem to require xsltproc, it is quite common and 
> small. What bothers me more is docbook-xsl. But the target audience of people 
> who run make dist and who run make install is different.
> But maybe there's more in the autotools philosophy that I don't fully get.

OK I will modify the build so that the file will be generated on
builder. Much simpler!

> As the only documentation other than man pages is tools.html (should that be 
> placed on the  website somewhere?) one of --enable-doc or --enable-man is 
> redundant.

I do not follow...
Do you want to remove the tools.html from build?
Or install both man and htmls using one option?
I don't think that installing to mandir and htmldir should be enforced
as single option.

Alon.
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