Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 12:44:45 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: nate@trout.sri.mt.net, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TeX support in bsd.doc.mk? Message-ID: <199504251944.MAA26464@netcom9.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 95 12:28:36 PDT." <199504251928.MAA10580@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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> Then for your site in /etc/make.conf you set PRINTER=dvi, simple enough??
Simple but this defeats the purpose of the `PRINTER' var.
> My point was that the .mk file should not be written to assume any
> prefered output format. Output should be selectable at build time
> via ${PRINTER}. There should be a reasonalbe default value for this,
> but it must be overrideable via /etc/make.conf.
Why not use a different variable? TEXOUT or something?
PRINTER connotes a different thing and it will confuse
people. I agree it must be overrideable but for TeX the
default should be its `native' output format.
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