On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:33 PM, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:12:26 +1000
> > "Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Mandereau
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Incomplete test-clean and web-clean can be cumbersome when you're
> > > > working on C++ code, but it's very useful when you don't want to
> > > > rebuild all lp-book snippets, e.g. when you edit the documentation
> > > > or hack documentation building.
> > >
> > > If you don't want to rebuild all of the snippets, why do 'make
> > > web-clean' in the first place?
>
> Because docs building is so complicated that it's quite hairy to write
> makefiles, so that all portions of the docs that changed since last
> build are actually rebuilt.  I experienced that the best way testing
> changes in doc building is cleaning all output and rebuilding from
> scratch, although I'm generally not interested in rebuilding snippets.
>
>
> > I agree; `make web-clean' should remove anything created by `make web'.
>
> In topdir/out/lybook-db, it's not possible to make a difference between
> what was created by web or test make targets.  However, I made web-clean
> and test-clean erase topdir/out/lybook-db, which seems to be what most
> people building Lily expect.


Thanks!
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