Re: Patch: RFA: new option

[Derek Robert Price]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> * Texinfo rules nightmare
>
>  - Distributed *.info files should be kept in $(srcdir).  This used
>    to be the case in 1.6.x and prior.  The change in 1.7 broke VPATH
>    builds with *BSD makes.  Using $(srcdir) is also required by
>    GNU Coding Standards.
>  - Non-distributed *.info files should be built in `.' (as happens in
>    1.7.x).  It's important.  Some projects, like Texinfo, already
>    rely on this.
>  - => we need a way to distinguish distributed *.info from
>    non-distributed *.info.  Perhaps we could build a map of cleaned
>    files.  (If the user is cleaning foo.info, then foo.info* are not
>    distributed...)
>  

I'd like to see the reverse and, I think, more explicit decision - if a 
file is in EXTRA_DIST then any cleanup should be moved to the 
maintainer-clean target from whatever target it rests in.  I think this 
check could be done for all files found in EXTRA_DIST, not just docs?

For instance, PS versions of the CVS manual are built and distributed 
with CVS, yet a `make mostlyclean' removes them.

If this was the only decision point, it would change the default of 
distribution for *.info files.  Can these two ideas be reconciled?  
Perhaps with dist_* targets and nodist_* targets?

Derek

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