Re: Using Org as the source format to generate org.texi

[Glenn Morris]

Phillip Lord wrote:

>> Note that this will make info generation depend on the existence of
>> src/emacs, when it was previously independent.
>
> Which would shove generation of the documentation till after dumping. I
> don't know enough about make to work out whether this would be for just
> org.org or for all the texi.

It should just be for org. I imagine an order-only prerequisite for
org.texi on src/emacs (as well as normal prerequisites on all the
relevant org.el source files, sigh).

>> Also, if any other manual made the same change, it would prevent
>> bootstrapping Emacs without Org present (eg if the idea to include elpa
>> packages in Emacs releases ever goes anywhere, and it's desired to stop
>> duplicating Org in the Emacs repo; an idea which still makes complete
>> sense to me).
>
> Confused on this one. bootstrapping needs the documentation to be complete?

By "bootstrapping Emacs" I meant "building it from the Emacs repository".
This includes generating the info documentation from whatever the
ultimate source files are, not just creating src/(bootstrap-)emacs.