[PATCH libX11 3/3] docs: Disable fop documentation by default

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 10:50:50 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> fop is used to generate the pdf and ps formats of the documentation.
>> This can significantly slow down the build, especially when creating all
>> the compose key charts. Since all the docs really only ever need to be
>> created for the tarball, set the default to 'no', but ensure that
>> they're built during distcheck.
>
> Should we be distributing the doc output in the tarball then?
> Currently, we're not, but that would be a simple update to
> spec/xmlrules.in in libX11.

Oh, I thought they were, but I didn't actually check. IMO, I'd either
leave the compose key charts out or distribute just the html versions.
Either way, I'd default fop to off. People that really want the pdf or
ps versions of the docs can build them on their own.

--
Dan


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