On Monday, May 25th, 2026 at 12:30 AM, Heime <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to include the ability for users to split by chapter,
> section, or node when outputting the html documentation.
>
> Variable OPTS is used as a general options not specific to html.
> With other html specific options stored in a different variable.
>
> makeinfo has the --split=chapter, --split= section, and
> --split= node to do this. How can I include this functionality
> for users of my makefile?
>
>
> opts = --force --enable-encoding -I ${srcdir}
> hmlopts = --split=chapter # section, node
>
>
> srcs = ${srcdir}/antares.texi
>
> .PHONY: html
> html: ${hmldir}/antares.html
>
> .SECONDEXPANSION:
> $(hmldir)/antares.html: $(srcs) | $$(@D)
> makeinfo $(opts) --html -o $@ $<
I have included a split variable that the user can override.
make -f antares.mk split=--split=chapter html
But it introduces the cumbersome `split=--split=chapter'.
Any ideas upon how to simplify this with just the split
specification?
Have seen that people override variables when calling a makefile,
meaning that the variable option override does not include the
starting --.
Would like to include --split=chapter as a valid option
So I can use
make -f antares.mk --split=chapter html
How can I do such a thing?
