Re: Windows Cross build fails because pspp executable is required during build

[John Darrington]

One thing we could do, is add a configure flag --without-documentation so
that the person building can choose not generate any documents.

J'

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:12:15PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     Maybe it is possible that 
     
     make
     make install
     
     will produce an info file without examples? Examples only with make doc or 
similar?
     
     Another idea would be a make target which is crafted for the cross compile 
process without
     the requirement of a pspp executable that runs on the build host. 
     
     Fritz
     
     > Am 17.11.2020 um 18:40 schrieb John Darrington 
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au>:
     > 
     > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:04:39PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     >     Is it a big deal to produce the examples only for the doc target?
     > 
     > Our "doc" target is a convenience thing which is defined as
     > 
     > doc: $(INFO_DEPS) $(DVIS) $(PDFS) $(PSS) $(HTMLS) $(dist_docbook_DATA)
     > 
     > 
     > Note that INFO_DEPS includes doc/pspp.info which since it is 
documentation
     > needs the examples.  INFO_DEPS is a standard dependency of the all-am 
target
     > which is set automatically by automake.
     > 
     > So I think your question boils down to "Can we omit pspp.info from the 
default
     > target?"    -   I suppose the answer to that question is "Yes we could".
     > However it would fly in the face of the GNU conventions, which installs 
the
     > info files when running "make install".
     > 
     > J'
     > 
     > 
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