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Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH)
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Derek R. Price |
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Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH) |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:44:52 -0400 |
Larry Jones wrote:
> Alexey Mahotkin writes:
> >
> > DRP> Most likely, they're generated thrice because Automake assumes
> >
> > It's ok that they are generated thrice -- that's how TeX works with
> > indices.
>
> I think the reason they were distributed was to try to *avoid* having to
> run TeX thrice. I believe the current texi2dvi runs TeX as many times
> as is necessary to get the auxiliary files to stop changing. If you
> don't distribute them, then it has to run TeX at least twice: once to
> generate them and again to make sure they don't change. In most cases,
> they will change, so you have to run it yet again. If you *do*
> distribute them, then a single run of TeX should be sufficient since the
> files it creates should match the distributed ones.
Ok. Do you know if that _only_ applies to *.aux? There are a bunch of
other files we don't distribute.... *.toc, *.fns, *.cps, *.fn, *.cp...
Is this worth bringing up on the Automake list to see if they'll do the
work for us?
Derek
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Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
- Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Alexey Mahotkin, 2001/06/03
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Larry Jones, 2001/06/04
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Derek R. Price, 2001/06/04
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Alexey Mahotkin, 2001/06/04
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Larry Jones, 2001/06/04
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH),
Derek R. Price <=
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Alexey Mahotkin, 2001/06/05
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Larry Jones, 2001/06/05
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Derek R. Price, 2001/06/06
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Derek R. Price, 2001/06/08
- Re: Couple of issues with doc/ subdir (with PATCH), Derek R. Price, 2001/06/04