On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Parrot <[email protected]> wrote:
> #1954: 'make docs' target:  Why are these files not installed?
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>  Reporter:  jkeenan  |       Owner:  jkeenan
>     Type:  bug      |      Status:  assigned
>  Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:
> Component:  docs     |     Version:  2.11.0
>  Severity:  low      |    Keywords:
>     Lang:           |       Patch:  new
>  Platform:           |
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>
> Comment(by jkeenan):
>
>  Replying to [comment:11 mikehh]:
>  > I am still getting a configuration failure on the branch.
>  > [from a new clone]
>  >
>
>  On a further attempt, I got the same failure you reported.  As a
>  workaround, I have guaranteed the existence of an ''html'' directory by
>  planting a little ''README'' file therein and adding that to git.  See
>  commit 81165eb.
>
>  Are there more elegant ways of doing this?  Undoubtedly, but here I've
>  reached the limits of my understanding of Makefiles.  However, the point
>  of this ticket was to eliminate the currently superfluous `make docs`
>  target, which was creating duplicates of certain ''.pod'' files, while not
>  damaging `make html`.  I believe I am accomplishing that.
>
>  Comments?
>
>  Thank you very much.
>
>  kid51
>

I'm very confused as to why we now have  a top level html/ directory
when we didn't have that before, even after "make html".

Is the goal of this ticket just to not generate the local .pod files
(mostly under docs/ops)? I'm sure we can remove those more surgically.



-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda
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