Re: [OctDev] Re: make clean

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

On Jul 6, 2004, at 8:29 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> According to Paul Kienzle <pki...@us...> (on 
> 07/06/04):
>>
>> My preference is to put the docs somewhere on the website for
>> those who can't build them, and use something like 'if not built
>> then echo "Docs not built.  Get them from octave.sf.net"'.
>
> Errr, that's harder due to the fact that I'd have to test for the
> presence of perl and a properly installed texinfo package. The way
> I proposed in what the octave distributions do themselves, and so
> I'd be happy with this way. Also I install the texinfo file, so that
> online help is available from within octave itself. If the file is
> not built or not part of the distribution, then this online help
> won't be available.....
>
> In any case I checked in the change that includes the postscript and
> texinfo help files as part of the distribution. If you really think its
> a bad idea given the above, I'll have to rethink what to do...

Okay, how about we have a 'make dist' target that builds these
and cleans up any intermediate files.  That way people installing
the release tarball have what they need and only the release
manager needs to have all the required tools installed.   You are
welcome to release as often as you need.

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...