Re: Workarounds for "automake does not support info_TEXINFOS being defined conditionally"

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Brooks,

* Brooks Moses wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:19:21PM CET:
>
> This resulted in the error quoted in the subject line, "automake does not 
> support info_TEXINFOS being defined conditionally", followed by an Internal 
> Error.

Hmm, something got stuck there:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2731/focus=2757>
Paolo, do you have time to look at this?

> (Incidentally, would it be possible to have automake just quit 
> after the first error?  I nearly missed it hiding before all the noise of 
> the Internal Error!)

AFAICS it quits after the first internal error.  Fixing
ICE-after-invalid issues in automake is low on my priority list, sorry.

> Is there a workaround or other solution to do what I want?  I tried 
> defining an INFOFILES variable in the conditional, and using an 
> unconditional info_TEXINFOS=$(INFOFILES), but that didn't do what I 
> expected either -- it sets PDFS to bdf.pdf unconditionally in Makefile.in.

Well, I'd prefer to just fix conditional texinfos in HEAD so you can use
that.

Cheers,
Rafl