Re: Updating generated lua help

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 20:40, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:57:55 am Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> may I request updating lua help? (Else the system keeps complaining
>> about modified file.)
>
> The help system files are fully generated for inclusion in each release,
> but they are not regenerated for the CVS repository every time there is a
> change to the source.  I don't mind updating gnuplot-tikz.help, but you
> really shouldn't expect the CVS copy of any generated file to be in sync
> with the copy produced by build+install.

It is ok if the files are occasionally out of sync, but if that is
noticed, I cannot hurt to sync them.

> By "the system keeps complaining", do you mean some "make" target or
> do you mean git?

There are no problems with "make" target (so it is harmless in
principle). It is only annoying that differences are shown when there
shouldn't be any.

The other problem with TEXDIR ignoring --prefix is something that
would result in a failure to install gnuplot however.

Mojca