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Re: [rfa/5] add PDF target to doc directory
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:12:35 +1000
> > From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> >
> > Ok? I left out the diff to texinfo.tex - it is huge. I guess the
> > question is, is this (specifically the texinfo.tex update) ok with the
> > doco maintainers as a change to the 5.0 branch?
>
> >From mere inspection, I don't see any problems with adding this to the
> branch. The only issue that worries me is whether the new texinfo.tex
> will not break older Texinfo installations. However, since the
> Makefile uses neither texi2dvi nor makeinfo in the DVI and PDF
> targets, I guess that's okay, too.
>
> Perhaps just make sure that the Info files still build with makeinfo
> 3.9 and stock 3.12 (I'm thinking about the @if... directives you
> added), just to be on the safe side ;-)
Yes, I avoided ``@ifnottex'' which caused me grief last time.
I've also tried it with makeinfo 3.12, 3.12f and 4.0 and they all went
through without errors.
Andrew