[vsipl++] [patch] Always include csl-docbook/GNUmakefile.inc

Brooks Moses brooks at codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 22 00:44:15 UTC 2008


Mark Mitchell wrote, at 8/21/2008 5:39 PM:
> Brooks Moses wrote:
>> Jules Bergmann wrote, at 8/21/2008 2:05 PM:
>>> The install-pdf rule uses the install_pdf_template defined in 
>>> csl-docbook's GNUmakefile.inc, ergo the makefile needs to be included 
>>> even when not in maintainer mode.
>>>
>>> Patch applied.
>> FWIW, this will be a problem for our distribution of the source package
>> if we decide not to ship csl_docbook with it at some point in the
>> future, as it means that not having a csl_docbook tree will break the build.
> 
> We don't want to ship csl_docbook.  It's proprietary and it's not really 
> useful to anyone.  Our customers certainly don't want to rebuild our 
> docs, and if they try they'll just get annoyed.
> 
> I think that means we probably have to hack up the Makefiles to avoid 
> relying on csl_docbook when in non-maintainer mode.  We get to create an 
> alternative install-pdf rule, I guess?

Actually, I suppose we could just copy csl_docbook/GNUmakefile.inc into
the final source directory, rather than copying the whole csl_docbook
tree there.  That's probably the simplest solution for the moment, and I
could work on creating an alternate rule once we have everything else
working.

- Brooks



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