Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-07-03 Thread Karl Berry
Would it make sense only to include this file if a _TEXINFOS variable e.g. info_TEXINFOS is set in Makefile.am? It sounds sensible, although I admit trying to discern whether any _TEXINFOS var is set anywhere in the source tree is something I've never looked into. So it's nothing I'm going

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-07-03 Thread Karl Berry
I imagined an option to specify files that are not distributed by default. Sounds reasonable. Such an option doesn't sound too hard to implement, if you or anyone are up for writing a patch. Unfortunately, I'm not likely to get to it any time soon, if ever :(. --thanks, karl.

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:15PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake > > --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I > > don't have texinfo documentation. > > The texinfo.t

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I vote for removing this file from the list of mandatory files. > > It's not mandatory. It only gets included when the file is present > in your development workspace (presumably by some mistake?) when you > run automake. Hmm. I can no longer repeat the problem. Sorry for the noise. > Re

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. >> >> Yes it is really not a good solution in this case. The file is >> detected at "automake" time and the rule to distribute texinfo.tex >> is baked into the generated Makefile.in. That then gets

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. > > Yes it is really not a good solution in this case. The file is > detected at "automake" time and the rule to distribute texinfo.tex > is baked into the generated Makefile.in. That then gets bundled up > into the tarball. Yep. The

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 23/06/2021, Peter Johansson wrote: > > On 24/6/21 3:02 am, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> As far as I know there is no way to disable this behaviour, although >>> I agree the automagic file inclusion can be a bit funky. >> Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. > > There is the dist

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Peter Johansson
On 24/6/21 3:02 am, Werner LEMBERG wrote: As far as I know there is no way to disable this behaviour, although I agree the automagic file inclusion can be a bit funky. Yeah, it would be nice to have a means to control that. There is the dist hook, which can be used to remove files from the

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake >> --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I >> don't have texinfo documentation. > > The texinfo.tex file (and others listed along with it) is included > in the distribution only if the file is presen

Re: How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-06-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake > --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I > don't have texinfo documentation. The texinfo.tex file (and others listed along with it) is included in the distribution

How to prevent distribution of `texinfo.tex`

2021-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
The file `texinfo.tex` is in the list of files (given by `automake --help`) that gets always distributed. How can I disable this? I don't have texinfo documentation. Werner