Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I generate HTML docs from other source files. I have a single program
> "build" that knows how to generate the docs. So all I need to do is
> detect that any one HTML file is out of date and run "build"
>
> This is suppose to build the HTML docs when out of date, and install the
> HTML docs.
>
> Here's the Makefile.am:
>
> html_DATA = \
> CHANGES.html \
> INSTALL.html \
> README.html \
> [...]
>
> image_DATA = \
> images/dotrule1.png \
> images/logo.png
>
> depends = \
> $(pod_dir)/CHANGES.pod \
> $(pod_dir)/INSTALL.pod \
> $(pod_dir)/README.pod \
> [...]
>
> all: .html-stamp
Remove this. You may need:
all-local: $(html_DATA)
to get these built during 'make all' rather than during 'make
install'.
> .html-stamp: $(version_file) $(depends)
> cd $(srcdir)/../doc && bin/build
> @touch $(srcdir)/.html-stamp
>
> EXTRA_DIST = $(html_DATA) $(image_DATA) .html-stamp
>
> This works fine, but if the HTML docs do not exist (such as from a CVS
> checkout) then Make dies because there's no target for .html.
>
> make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `CHANGES.html'
>
> I tried something like:
>
> $(html_DATA): .html-stamp
Keep this. Also, if you only support using GNU make when developing
this package, you may want to use the following more useful (but
untested) rule:
$(html_DATA): .html-stamp
if test -f $@; then :; else rm -f $<; done
This'll allow you to
rm CHANGES.html
make
and have CHANGES.html recreated.
- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
