Hello Alexei,
Is there any way to build the documentation with standard tools?
doc/Makefile.in
55 ${srcdir}/${PACKAGE}.texi : ${srcdir}/${PACKAGE}.tex 56 cp $< $@ 57 ${EMACS} -batch $@ -load addnodes.el -f save-buffer
Or I really have to install that monster?
This rule of making is indeed outdated. At the time I wrote the doc, "makeinfo" required @node lines in the form @node NODE, NEXT, PREV, TOP and I did not want to spend time on this, so I used that little script addnodes.el to generate these lines for me. Meanwhile it is also possible to just write @node NODE across all the file (*). This is much less of a hassle. Ypu still have to update the @menu lines when adding a new section; but that's acceptable burden. I'm therefore renaming cln.tex to cln.texi; this gets rid of the need to have emacs installed. Bruno (*) makeinfo has a bug in its computation of Next and Prev links; therefore I have to leave in 2 particular long @node lines. 2008-01-15 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * doc/cln.texi: Renamed from doc/cln.tex. Add @node lines and @menu lists. * doc/addnodes.el: Remove file. * doc/Makefile.in (${PACKAGE}.texi): Remove rule. (EMACS): Remove variable. (maintainer-clean): Don't remove ${PACKAGE}.texi. Reported by Alexei Sheplyakov <varg@theor.jinr.ru>.