On 2010-09-18 13:15Z, James wrote:
>
> I'm using make to manage the compilation of latex documents. Latex offers
> two compilers, "latex" and "pdflatex" that create .dvi and .pdf files,
> respectively. When compiling either one, the list of steps (including
> multiple runs of latex, each run builds on the outputs of the last run until
> a final version is created) and command line arguments are the same, its
> just the compiler that is different.
[...]
> What is the best way to handle this so I don't have to maintain two
> identical lists of commands?
%.dvi: TOOL := latex
%.pdf: TOOL := pdflatex
%.dvi %.pdf: %.tex
@echo 'Sample command: $(TOOL) --input=$< --output=$@'
# ...further commands here...
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