> > > > It appears that 'make dvi' is aborting when bibtex gets errors, which
> > > > it always does for the reference manual because there's no
> > > > bibliography.
>
> that would be weird, becuase of the || true command.
I think it looks like this now:
(cd && latex && (bibtex && latex && latex ) || true )
The subexpression (bibtex && latex && latex) runs bibtex. It returns
false. Short circuiting occurs---it's unnecessary to run either of
the latex's to evaluate the result.
BWT, the make is not aborting with failure. It's finishing
successfully, but latex is only run 1 time which isn't enough to
generate the table of contents and so on.
> > > > I guess bibtex returns false and so the rest of the && chain short
> > > > circuits. This means references don't get fixed and the table of
> > > > contents is screwed up. I'm not quite sure what is intended here, so
> > > > I didn't try to produce a fix. (Why the long chain with && instead of
> > > > just a list of commands?)
> > > because of the cd $(outdir)
> > >
> > >
> > > > $(outdir)/%.dvi: $(outdir)/%.latex
> > > > (cd $(outdir)&& \
> > > > latex \\nonstopmode \\input $(<F)&&\
> > > > (bibtex $(basename $(<F))&&\
> > > > latex \\nonstopmode \\input $(<F)&&\
> > > > latex \\nonstopmode \\input $(<F) ) || true)
> > > >
> >
> > So would it be ok to use semicolons instead of &&'s?
> maybe || true can be moved.
Perhaps an additional "|| true" after the bibtex call is what is
needed.
