Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-13 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-12 fr33domlover fr33domlo...@riseup.net wrote: Here's part of my code: all-local: ref ref: ref-html ref-html: ref-full-html ref-api-html ref-full: ref-full-html ref-api: ref-api-html ref-full-html: $(reference_full_devhelp_chosen) \

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread Nick Bowler
Hello, On 2014-11-11 22:07 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter simon.rich...@hogyros.de wrote: On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: Hello, On 2014-11-11 22:07 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter simon.rich...@hogyros.de wrote: On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2014-11-12 21:58 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: What is probably happening is that in VPATH builds from your tarball, your documentation is being rebuilt even though it was distributed. This is leaving files behind in your build

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my package this is not an error. If you assume that few people build these files, they should be

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter simon.rich...@hogyros.de wrote: Hi, On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my package this is not an error. If

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 21:07, fr33domlover wrote: When the files are distributed, the distcheck should recognize that these belong in the source package, and not show an error. Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to make sure, before I cause confusion: The files are indeed

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter simon.rich...@hogyros.de wrote: Hi, On 11.11.2014 21:07, fr33domlover wrote: When the files are distributed, the distcheck should recognize that these belong in the source package, and not show an error. Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 22:02, fr33domlover wrote: If they are distributed, the distcheck target should not complain, because it should expect the files to be there. The files are not specified in any variable with 'dist_' prefix. They are distributed because I wrote a dist-hook. Normally I would