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On Thursday 14 December 2006 05:50, Ed Hartnett wrote: > For example, do you think netcdf should install it's docs in html, > info, ps, pdf, or all? PS and PDF are somewhat redundant. I think PDF only is probably the best option since PDFs are usually smaller and more easily read on non-*nix systems. Man and info should definitely be installed. It would probably be possible to generate all of these things from Docbook XML if you were interested. I might even be able to help make that happen. > By default, should documentation be or not be installed? (Currently it > is not installed unless --enable-docs-install is used, but I think > that might be incorrect. Surely it would be better to install it by > default.) Actually, the option is --enable-docs in beta4. Install it by default. It's <7MB. If you have a problem using 7MB for docs, you probably aren't using netcdf. > Any comments would be most appreciated. You asked. :-) > In answer to your question, you may use the --docdir=/some/place > option of configure to get netCDF to install documentation in > /some/place. This sounds good. > For example the following configure script works for me (on the CVS > tip, but should work with beta4 too): > > ./configure --enable-docs-install --prefix=`pwd`/install > --docdir=/home/ed/tmp && make check install Beta4 doesn't have docdir documented in ./configure --help. I don't actually regenerate the configure script, so it is as shipped from the netcdf tarball. *snip* > This is all part of the usual configure script option, so this should > work on almost any package which has a configure script, not just > netCDF. Not on beta4. *snip* > --docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/netcdf] This option is not in beta4. This is a good default for it, however. Maybe it's time to cut beta5 so that this is included? *snip* > Please let me know if this doesn't help, or if you need more > information. Here are some other comments about the package: 1) I don't think that the examples should be build by default. 2) Please name the beta tarballs according to their release (i.e. netcdf-3.6.2~beta4.tar.gz instead of netcdf-beta.tar.gz). It would make finding new versions with a script easier since I could just compare version numbers. BTW, the version syntax used up there is like Debian packages. The ~ makes the version sort before 3.6.2. I am just hoping you will be releasing the real 3.6.2 real soon. wt -- Warren Turkal ============================================================================== To unsubscribe netcdfgroup, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-delete-form.html ==============================================================================
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