[Ecls-list] Misc. fixes

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> 
> Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <Juan.Ripoll at mpq.mpg.de> writes:
> 
> > Two things here. texi2html is not available everywhere, and the flags
> 
> Good point.  Would it be reasonable to find out in configure
> whether a suitable texi2html version is available and use it if it
> is and fall back to makeinfo if not?  I dislike autoconf and don't
> really handle it but I could try to cook some test if that approach
> were ok.

This has been hacked into the src/doc/Makefile.in today. My fix involves
trying to invoke texi2html and, in case of failure, using makeinfo and
deleting the temporary directories.

> Right, they are for a newer version, at least 1.64 should work.
> 
> >>         * src/c/Makefile.in:
> >>           * Fixed incorrect suffix rules with pattern rules.
> >
> > The suffix rules are not incorrect, AFAIK. Indeed, the pattern rules are
> 
> Well, perhaps they aren't with some make implementations, but at
> least the dependencies aren't handled properly with GNU make
> (parallel builds break; make attempts to use dpp before it is
> built).  Even the manual says [something about .c.o causing problems]

Since the audience of ECLS will typically have a gnu make available
(i.e. Cygwin, linux users most BSDish installations), I have commited
the patches that make use of pattern rules. GNU make therefore becomes a
prerequisite for building ECLS.

Juanjo