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Request build flag to turn off docs creation #95

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gbpoole opened this issue Jun 22, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #117
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Request build flag to turn off docs creation #95

gbpoole opened this issue Jun 22, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #117
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gbpoole commented Jun 22, 2022

May I humbly request a build switch that would allow us to build and install Stow while skipping the build of the docs. Having to build latex to build Stow is very wasteful and frustrating for my use case.

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gbpoole commented Jun 23, 2022

I run Stow on a lot of different systems and I often run into the sort of build errors reported in issue #96

Latex distributions can differ significantly and this sort of thing really adds to the frustration of always needing to build the docs.

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aspiers commented Apr 8, 2024

Yes this is a perfectly reasonable request.

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aspiers commented Sep 8, 2024

Looking into this now ... it seems that makeinfo (used to build the manual in Info and HTML format) does not depend on texinfo, and therefore doesn't depend on LaTeX either. So I think we can keep building of stow.info by default, and make just building of the PDF optional.

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