On 2023-01-06, Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for Automake <bug-automake@gnu.org> wrote: > I'm using automake 1.16.5. The advice about how to disable the "dvi" > target doesn't seem to work. > > In the manual it says: > > To make ‘dvi’ into a do-nothing target, see the example for > ‘EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS’ in *note Third-Party Makefiles::. > > If I have: > > EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS = dvi > .PHONY: $(EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS) > $(EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS): > > in my Makefile.am, then "TEXI2DVI" is still run by "make distcheck".
This example in the manual is talking about writing a custom Makefile, *without* using Automake, that you want to recurse into using Automake's SUBDIRS feature. > If I instead have: > > dvi: > > then it is not. This is right way to override the dvi target that would otherwise be generated by Automake. Cheers, Nick
