[nanomsg] Re: Separating the library from the docs
- From: luca barbato <luca.barbato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:25:27 +0200
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2013-08-13 16:15, luca barbato wrote:
>
>> If, to please the picky windows user, we want to provide on *release*
>> a nanomsg-docs-${version}.7z it is easy to do with a dist-hook w/out
>> having the pain to keep synced branches.
>
>
> Actually, if we could generate the docs only on "make dist" it would cover
> almost all the use cases.
>
> There would be also a nice separation of concerns:
>
> 1. Users and devs do only make & install. They don't need doc toolchain.
> 2. Maintaners do "make dist". They do need doc toolchain.
>
> However, there's a technical problem in that the same "make install" is used
> when you are building from git and when you are building from source
> package. Yet, in the former case there are no man pages to install. In the
> latter case the man pages should be installed.
I'm not sure exactly why having the current --enable-doc is not enough
to cover the situation.
I can make so the manpages (and later the rfc) are built (and cleaned)
on --enable-doc or preserve the prebuilt ones otherwise
lu
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