Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: generated using tools such as doxygen, asciidoc, xmlto, groff, and ps2pdf. I can state some reasons why generated docs and included in the tarball: This is interesting and many seem to agree here, but I think this is

Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Andreas Jellinghaus a...@dungeon.inka.de wrote: also I wonder: what about builddir vs. sourcedir? how do you handle that? does automake handle that automaticaly? make does handle it (at least GNU Make, I don't know others): If you have in Makefile.am let's

Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Friday 12 February 2010, Braden McDaniel bra...@endoframe.com wrote: Actually, EXTRA_DIST can pull in a whole subdirectory. Thank you for the information, I didn't know that (or I forgot it). I guess It's time for me to re-read the Automake documentation. Wildcards work there as well.

Re: How to handle data/script files in a VPATH build ?

2010-02-12 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi Ralf, thanks again for your helpful message. It is interesting how many mistakes (non-portable constructions) can be in such a small snipped I wrote. Thanks for spotting. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:01:34AM CET:

Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:59 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: At Friday 12 February 2010, Braden McDaniel bra...@endoframe.com wrote: Actually, EXTRA_DIST can pull in a whole subdirectory. Thank you for the information, I didn't know that (or I forgot it). I guess It's time for me to

Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 12:21 +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Gaetan Nadon mems...@videotron.ca wrote: generated using tools such as doxygen, asciidoc, xmlto, groff, and ps2pdf. I can state some reasons why generated docs and included in the tarball: This is

Re: How to handle data/script files in a VPATH build ?

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Steffen Dettmer wrote: Just because of my curiosity, when writing portable packages (i.e. packages compiling ON many platforms), on which platform this is recommended to do so? GNU/Linux is great for working because it has all the efficient tools, but bad for testing, because it is too powerful