doc build with .OBJDIR

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.05.24 10:57:38 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:

> In fact I'm not really right on that point: the 100MB is in the PDF/PS
> format case which needs the images to be in the localdir, it would be
> very difficult to deal with links in the generated .tex file.
> For the others formats, HTML for example, in your implementation the
> images are copied many times in the doc tree (each time a doc needs the
> image) which is, as I said in my previous mail, a space eater.

It definatly is a bad thing to require that much space for building when
it really should not be needed, if done right.

> Well, nothing is easy, our .mk files are very "hairy" cause of multiples
> add-ons etc.  All the thing should be rewritten from the beginning, but
> who would be enough "crazy" to take that task? :))

Guess who would... hey, why am I still in CC :-)

I'm going to try to write down some requirements on what a new doc build
system should support, and I'l post it here, unless somebody else is
interested in looking over drafts before doing a wider circulation... ?

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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