Hamish wrote: > I notice with the latest CVS that "g.module.tmp.html" files are left in each > module directory after a build.
Yep. Arguably, they should be. In general, anything which could be re-used if make is re-run should be left around until "make clean" is run. If the description.html files were handled consistently (some are called description.html, some are named after the program, e.g. r.mapcalc.html; some are complete HTML files, some expect to be merged with the <prog>.tmp.html file), the rule to build the final <prog>.html file would have both fragments as prerequisites. If you modify description.html then re-build the final <prog>.html file, it would use the existing <prog>.tmp.html file rather than repeating the --html-description step. This doesn't happen at present, as there's no way to determine which files tools/mkhtml.sh will actually use (it handles several cases depending upon which files already exist), so description.html isn't listed as a prerequisite. It may be useful in the future, though. It would be easy enough to have the htmlgen step remove them if they're causing problems. The only situation where they would be regenerated unnecessarily is if you need to rebuild the <prog>.html file and the program itself hasn't changed, which isn't likely. Currently, they aren't explicitly mentioned in the Makefiles because they aren't always created/used. A few programs don't understand --html-description, which created no end of problems with trying to come up with sane rules for building the HTML files. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
