When building into another directory than in the source, the hard-coded
relative path to the changelog will fail finding the file, causing an empty
date in the generated file when '@today' is used.
This patch is making sure the ChangeLog is taken in the source directory to
avoid any problem.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
As pointed by Douglas Torrance, there are some case where the 2 docs
INSTALL-WMAKER and README.i18n are not re-generated properly, one of the
cases being if the user grabs the sources from Git to make a source package
only (ie, without compiling anything).
This patch adds a hook to "make dist" so it will re-generate the docs if
needed. Because the "dist-hook" is run after Automake has copied the files
to the temporary directory (distdir) then we also include an explicit copy
of the files there to have the latest version.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The source of the documentation is in Texinfo format to have the
possibility someday to distribute in more format that just plain text;
The INSTALL-WMAKER original file will now be generated automatically when
running the 'autogen.sh' script (for those who made a git-checkout) and
when running 'make' (for the people who create the distribution archive).
The current document have seen these changes:
- added all the texinfo header (including the copyright notice);
- texinfo formatting command in place everywhere applicable;
- re-ordering of the content to try to get a consistent document.
Apart from this, the document should not have seen any change on the
content, because this deserves dedicated patches to show the evolution.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The command in 'autogen.sh' was using an invalid syntax to call the script,
so the file was not generated; this patch fixes the invocation.
The test in the makefile was not correct because it would not generate the
file if it was deleted; now the check works whether the file exists or not,
and properly skips generation if it is read-only (for make distcheck).
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The support for variables in the text-from-texi script is used to
automatically insert the current version of Window Maker, inherited from
the definition in the AC_INIT command, so it will be always correctly
updated without the need for hand work.
Having this version information is recommended by GNU texinfo because if
the document happens to get distributed outside a package it can help user
avoid problems.
The second use is to define a variable 'emailsupport' which contains the
email address of the development team, so we can also inherit it from the
AC_INIT setting.
The third use is for a special variable 'cctexi2txt' to differentiate
between texi2any and our script, because when using texi2any the title
page is not generated, so we need to duplicate some information in the
source, but we do not want it to appear twice in our generated doc.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The source of the documentation is in Texinfo format to have the
possibility someday to distribute in more format that just plain text;
There is a new Makefile to generate automatically the plain text file to be
distributed from the source; this doc is also generated by 'autogen.sh'
because a user would expect to find it before compiling the program, so
even before the 'configure' script have been generated, in the case he is
compiling from a git checkout;
There is a new script to generate the documentation, because from the way
we generate it we cannot assume that 'texi2any' is available and working
on the user's computer; it is also the opportunity to generate a better
looking document (see the description at the beginning of the script);
In this commit, the documentation only contains the base skeleton, it does
not contain yet any useful content because it is worth it's own commit.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
