[PATCH] doc: Don't install emacs docs when they are not built

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Mon Jun 10 12:03:20 PDT 2019


On Mon, Jun 10 2019, David Bremner wrote:

> In 40b025 we stopped building the notmuch-emacs documentation if
> HAVE_EMACS=0 (i.e. no emacs was detected by configure). Unfortunately
> we continued to try to install the (non-existent) documentation, which
> causes build/install failures.
>
> As a bonus, we also avoid installing the documentation if the user
> configures --without-emacs.
>
> We use '$(if )' instead of 'ifeq' here (and change ':=' to '=') to
> make sure that WITH_EMACS and HAVE_EMACS are defined before we expand
> INFO_TEXI_FILES.
>
> Thanks to Ralph Seichter for reporting the problem, and testing
> previous versions of this fix.
> ---
>  doc/Makefile.local | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/Makefile.local b/doc/Makefile.local
> index 719172fe..92c41b57 100644
> --- a/doc/Makefile.local
> +++ b/doc/Makefile.local
> @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ MAN_GZIP_FILES := $(addsuffix .gz,${MAN_ROFF_FILES})
>  MAN1_TEXI := $(patsubst $(srcdir)/doc/man1/%.rst,$(DOCBUILDDIR)/texinfo/%.texi,$(MAN1_RST))
>  MAN5_TEXI := $(patsubst $(srcdir)/doc/man5/%.rst,$(DOCBUILDDIR)/texinfo/%.texi,$(MAN5_RST))
>  MAN7_TEXI := $(patsubst $(srcdir)/doc/man7/%.rst,$(DOCBUILDDIR)/texinfo/%.texi,$(MAN7_RST))
> -INFO_TEXI_FILES := $(MAN1_TEXI) $(MAN5_TEXI) $(MAN7_TEXI) $(DOCBUILDDIR)/texinfo/notmuch-emacs.texi
> +INFO_TEXI_FILES = $(MAN1_TEXI) $(MAN5_TEXI) $(MAN7_TEXI) \
> +	$(if $(filter 11,$(HAVE_EMACS)$(WITH_EMACS)), $(DOCBUILDDIR)/texinfo/notmuch-emacs.texi,)
> +
>  INFO_INFO_FILES := $(INFO_TEXI_FILES:.texi=.info)

Interestingly, in your commit message you mention that changing := to =
makes a difference. I would have thought that assigning INFO_INFO_FILES
with := would have expanded INFO_TEXI_FILES just 2 lines below after
its introduction. 

Anyway, it if helps, good (and change LGTM). I'm just a bit curious...

Tomi

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