On 10 Jan 2014, at 08:26, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9 Jan 2014, at 19:49, Markus Hitter <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote: > >> Am 08.01.2014 13:11, schrieb Niels Grewe: >>> In fact it’s very, very easy to switch the documentation to using the >>> present (not yet installed) configuration: You just have to set >>> GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=../ at the beginning of Documentation/GNUmakefile. >> >> After evaluating this more closely, it's indeed very good: >> >> - First time I see HTML documentation installed. >> >> - .info documentation is installed again. >> >> - Usage of DESTDIR works fine. >> >> - Unless the documentation installation process is changed drastically, >> makefile fragments in the source dir always share their hierarchy >> with the installed ones. That's how documentation.make works. >> >> - Cleaning works fine. >> >> - Build time for the whole thing almost cut in half (one run of >> configure instead of three). >> >> - About 40 lines of complicated code removed. >> >> The only minor problem not solved is, "make -C Documentation distclean" >> _without_ configuring previously errors out (instead of doing >> nonsense before). >> >> Patch attached. It adresses Richards concerns in comments. > > Hi Markus ... When Niels suggested setting GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES at the > 'beginning' of the makefile, I suspect he meant that, for your special > case, you should set it in your environment before running the makefile. > > However, I tried your patch as follows: > > $ cd Documentation > $ make > ../common.make:61: ../config-noarch.make: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../config.guess: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../config.sub: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../cpu.sh: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../vendor.sh: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../os.sh: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../clean_cpu.sh: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../clean_vendor.sh: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: ../clean_os.sh: No such file or directory > ../common.make:100: .././config.make: No such file or directory > ../common.make:148: ../filesystem.make: No such file or directory > ../common.make:857: WARNING: Your PATH may not be set up correctly ! > ../common.make:858: Please try again after adding "" to your path > make: *** No rule to make target `../filesystem.make'. Stop. > > Obviously it doesn't work because gnustep-make hasn't been configured yet. > You could presumably work around that issue by checking to see if the > configuration has been completed successfuly in order to decide whether to > define GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES tyo be ../ or not. > > Alternatively, how about implementing Sebastien's good suggestion: > >> For that matter, if the gnustep-make package would support >> generating and installing the documentation in one go, i.e. >> ./configure >> make >> make install (which would go for me on OpenBSD into a fake environment) >> make install-docs (that would use the values from configure, and also >> install in that fake environment) >> >> or an "install-all" (installing the makefiles and the docs with one command) > > That seems a great extension which won't breask any existing functionality. Actually, it looks like I'll have some time today, so I'll have a go at implementing both changes. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev