> If I had a web dir in my home directory (not exactly uncommon), it would > have been deleted without warning. Luckily, I didn't. I now have it > cloned into a separate dir where it can do no harm. > > Is it normal for Makefiles to be so intrusive? IMO, Makefiles shouldn't > be deleting anything outside their own directory.
You're right! Makefiles shouldn't do anything outside their own directory, but building the website is a little bit complicated as d-progamming-language.org relys on the sources of druntime and phobos to generate the documentation. I think it can not be avoided in this particular case. The Makefile has to do some work in the parent folder. BUT, it's probably best to add a "README.md" and give a short explanation of how to build the website. ---- mkdir -p /tmp/workdir cd /tmp/workdir git checkout ... git checkout ... git checkout ... make -f .... move BLA to your /var/www/public_html folder rm -rf /var/workdir ----
