On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:30:45AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:27:00PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> "make distcheck" was failing. This fixes it: > >> > >> avoid "make distcheck" failure > >> * docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Replace wildcards html/*.html > >> and html/*.png the corresponding lists of file names. > > > > Hum, that's still changing a bit. > > All the more reason *not* to use wildcards.
I was just trying to carry the point that "docs/ is a work in progress, will be fixed, sorry for the inconvenience" > > For example we are likely to include the > > HTML for the ocaml and ruby bindings as part of the distribution, and parts > > of the graphic design, including images are gonna change. > > Anyway I'm still wondering why using wildcards would break in principle, > > any good reason to not use them ? > > If fixing a failing "make distcheck" isn't a good enough reason, > take a look at the automake manual's section: > > 27.3 Why doesn't Automake support wildcards? > > it gives several good reasons. Okay thanks, will fix. But cleaner fix is by fixing/reusing $(apihtml) and $(apipng) that will be done as part of the docs/ fixup commit later. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
