>>>> "S" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>> "mb" == Martin Buchholz
<martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
mb> People who download pre-packaged tarballs
will not have any
mb> problems since their info files will already be up-to-date.
mb> Only CVS users will have to upgrade, or get up-to-date info
mb> files from the packaged tarballs.
S> OK, so we don't have to care, I guess.
S> The lack of reports on xemacs-beta is quite possibly
S> meaningless; as I reported recently, "make beta" does not
S> rebuild info by default.
mb> ???
mb> Just `make' rebuilds the info files by default.
S> Well, I read most of the traffic on xemacs-beta. I do not recall
S> having seen "./config.status --recheck; make beta" deprecated as the
S> normal way to build an XEmacs beta. This is still the procedure as of
S> CVS checked out 2.5 hours ago in etc/BETA.
Oh, now I understand.
Well, of course `make beta' should remake the info files. This is a
bug. Try this obvious untested patch (can this be wrong?)
ChangeLog:
1999-11-29 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org>
* Makefile.in.in (beta): `make beta' should rebuild info.
Index: Makefile.in.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/Attic/Makefile.in.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.17
diff -u -w -r1.1.2.17 Makefile.in.in
--- Makefile.in.in 1999/11/27 21:30:49 1.1.2.17
+++ Makefile.in.in 1999/11/29 11:30:57
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
.PHONY: ${SUBDIR} all beta all-elc all-elcs dump-elc dump-elcs autoloads finder
## Convenience target for XEmacs beta testers
-beta: clean all-elc finder
+beta: clean all-elc finder info
## Convenience target for XEmacs maintainers
## This would run `make-xemacsdist' if I were really confident that everything