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emcrisostomo / fswatch

A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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How to get the PDF documentation #292

Closed meator closed 1 year ago

meator commented 1 year ago

Hello. https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L212-L214 encourages package managers to bundle the PDF documentation into the package but I wasn't able to find any instructions on how to do so. There aren't any instructions how to do so in README.md, README.gnu-build-system and ./configure --help. The changelog pointed me to 85bca1116dce956d03915291f570293c4a8ce913 but that is no longer in README.

meator commented 1 year ago

It has been removed by 376de51f3746baf7706ddaec7633937e3b752ca9. Was it because make pdf should no longer be used?

emcrisostomo commented 1 year ago

Hello @meator. The wording has been simplified. The PDF documentation is built using standard Automake targets created when Texinfo documentation is present (fswatch.texi). Refer to Automake documentation to get the details you need about its mechanics. The short story is: if you have a TeX distribution and all the packages you need to create the PDF version of the Texinfo documentation, you can use make pdf. But since most people, and build environment nowadays, do not have a suitable TeX distribution, that target is not executed by default.

meator commented 1 year ago

Thanks!