On 9/10/18 6:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 09/10/2018 04:23 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
>> On 9/9/18 7:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2018 01:04 AM, Kevin Buckley wrote:
>>>> A small thing I noticed, when using the "dump-commands" target
>>>> from the Book's SVN repo, was that in
>>>>
>>>>     4.5 About SBUs
>>>>
>>>> the two example commands in the following
>>>>
>>>>     For instance, a Core2Duo can support two simultaneous processes with:
>>>>
>>>>     export MAKEFLAGS='-j 2'
>>>>
>>>>     or just building with:
>>>>
>>>>     make -j2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> appear in the output when one does a
>>>>
>>>> make dump-commands
>>>
>>> As far as I know, that target is no longer used.  Just ignore it.
>>> We will leave it alone though in case we want to resurrect it at some time
>>> in the future.
>>>
>> Well, the Makefile is broken for this target, because it uses
>> $(RENDERTMP)/lfs-html.xml, but the generation of this file has been
>> commented out. The simple fix is to replace $(RENDERTMP)/lfs-html.xml with
>> $(RENDERTMP)/lfs-full.xml.
>>
>> Note that I amazed "make dump-commands" did not fail completely. It did for
>> me, and this is the expected behavior...
>>
>> Then the file stylesheets/dump-commands.xsl should be replaced with the one
>> from the blfs repo (well, note quite, it needs some editing too).
>>
>> I can do that, unless there is a strong opposition...
>>
>> Still, the examples in About SBU's should be made similar to the others in
>> the book (that is removing <userinput> tags, or add role="nodump").
> 
> I have no problem with you making those changes, but will raise the issue of
> whether the dump-commands is useful at all.  Why not just remove the
> dump-commands target from the Makefile?

Well, let us comment out the whole target. Having a broken Makefile is not
good... As of the usefulness of the command, I may be wrong, but it may be
handy as a starting point to script the build: dump commands, then edit the
scriptlets. Maybe ask on -support whether people are interested in the target...

> 
> Adding role="nodump" is fine in any case to make things consistent.
> 

Will do that shortly.
Pierre
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