Re: Remove path to VERSION file, this is now taken of by TEXINPUTS.

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> 	Hi Lars,
> 
> > Modified files:
> >        gnuplot/docs/: titlepag.tex
> >
> > Log message:
> >        Remove path to VERSION file, this is now taken of by TEXINPUTS.
> 
> well, it seems it is not easily portable by setting TEXINPUTS in a Makefile
> for different systems, like Windows and OS/2. Do you know how to set an
> environmental variable in Makefiles for these systems? 

If they're sufficiently Unix-like, I see no particular reason why the
approach in docs/Makefile.in shouldn't work for makefile.mgw, too. Or you
can use the "export"  directive of GNU make, i.e.

	export TEXINPUTS=... whatever...

There's an older method using the special target ".EXPORT:", but I'm not
sure whether that still exists.  It's not documented any longer, it seems.

> Thus, do you really prefer the above "copy" method, or would rather go back
> to \openin ../VERSION as it was until now?

\openin ../VERSION breaks in other ways, so we can't usefully go back to
that (it fails to work in out-of-source-directory builds on Unix-like
platforms).

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.