Re: [Gcl-devel] gcl info

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Sorry for replying so late but...

I've been wanting to ship the gcl info files with the main package for
some time.  Trouble is, they don't compile from the .texi sources,
which I feel is a must.  I've fixed some issues, notably missing
'@cite's which can be added via judicious sed usage, but other's still
remain, and I don't have any more time now for this.

Anyone know texinfo and want to submit a small diff against the
.texi sources to get this moving along?

Take care,

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all.
> 
> I would like to discuss some proposed changes to info doc installation for
> GCL which at least allow Emacs 21.1 to see and read the info files installed
> by "make install".
> 
> While working on GCL under Windows I have noticed that the info system
> doesn't work correctly.  eg (describe 'proclaim) leads to errors about "dir"
> and "gcl.info" not being found.
> 
> This is because (at least on my Win32 system) "info/Makefile" does not
> correctly install the files:
> 
>      <PREFIX>/lib/gcl-2.5.0/info/dir
>      <PREFIX>/lib/gcl-2.5.0/info/gcl.info*
> 
> The first of these files is the standard info description file found in info
> directories.  The latter are the ANSI CL definition files which can be found
> in Bill Schelter's original web site as "gcl.info.tgz".
> 
> The reason these files are not installed is that the "!" logical operators
> in the install target needed removing.
> 
> A file header for "dir" ( in the changes below, copying a new file called
> "dir" which is just a bare bones header for an info "dir" file) also needed
> to be added (for my version of emacs to read it) and I also copied the old
> ANSI info files into a new sub-directory (I called it "ansi/ansi"), for
> copying during installation.
> 
> ===================================================
> 153,154c158,159
> <       [ -f $(DESTDIR)$(INFO_DIR)dir ] || touch $(DESTDIR)$(INFO_DIR)dir
> <       ! grep -q gcl-si $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> ---
> >       [ -f $(DESTDIR)$(INFO_DIR)dir ] || cp dir $(DESTDIR)$(INFO_DIR)
> >       grep -q gcl-si $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> 156c161
> <       ! grep -q gcl-tk $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> ---
> >       grep -q gcl-tk $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> 158c163
> <       ! grep -q gcl.info $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> ---
> >       grep -q info/gcl.info $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}dir || \
> 160c165
> <       cp *.info* $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}
> ---
> >       cp *.info* ansi/*.info* $(DESTDIR)${INFO_DIR}
> 
> =====================================================
> 
> I would like to know before thinking about changes to CVS -
> 
> 1) Whether there are similar problems with other platforms.
> 
> 2) Whether you are happy with putting the ANSI info files into CVS, as GCL's
> info system specifically looks for these file when executing "DESCRIBE".
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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