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Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"

From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:19:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
References: <20181020183429.21188-1-tom@tromey.com>

On 2018-10-20 14:34, Tom Tromey wrote:

I've broken "make info" a couple of times now, because I sometimes
forget to run "make info" after modifying a Texinfo file.

I don't know why gdb's "make all" doesn't build the info pages.  I
suspect this was some Cygnus-local oddity back in the day.

This patch changes doc/Makefile.in so that the info pages are built by
"make all".  As a point of reference, Automake has essentially always
worked this way.  According to the Automake manual (I didn't
double-check) this is required by the GNU coding standards.

IIRC, another weird consequence of the current situation is that if youdo ./configure && make && sudo make install, the doc artifacts will begenerated during make install, so owned by root. I believe everythingshould be generated by "make", and make install should only install thefiles in the prefix.


Simon

References:
- [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
  - From: Tom Tromey

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