On 09 Nov 2022 11:15, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On 11/9/22 10:48, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> > 
> > Simon> "make install" only installs the man pages and the info version of the
> > Simon> manual.  The pdf or html versions of the manual are only installed with
> > Simon> explicit "install-pdf" and "install-html" rules.  So I presume that epub
> > Simon> would be the same as pdf and html.
> > 
> > I think so too.  Is there a typical GNU directory for where exactly
> > these should be installed?
> 
> Autoconf doesn't specify an "epubdir" like there is an "htmldir" and a
> "pdfdir".  I think we could just install it in docdir instead (htmldir
> and pdfdir default do that).

all the random file formats go into $docdir, so using that sounds fine

that said, having an "install-epub" rule in gdb alone (and in the doc/
subdir at that) seems pretty questionable.  seems like someone who is
interested in moving the epub needle should spend the time pushing it
through all the GNU parts, assuming the texinfo people aren't already.

there's certainly autoconf as you highlight, but also the GNU standards,
and the GCC top-level, and binutils/gdb top-level, and automake, and the
binutils/gdb release scripts so things get published to the websites.
that's off the top of my head, but i'm sure there's more.
-mike