Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-13 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-12 fr33domlover wrote: > > Here's part of my code: > > all-local: ref > > ref: ref-html > ref-html: ref-full-html ref-api-html > ref-full: ref-full-html > ref-api: ref-api-html > ref-full-html: $(reference_full_devhelp_chosen) \ >$(dist_reference_full_DATA) > ref-api-

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2014-11-12 21:58 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > > On 2014-11-12 > > Nick Bowler wrote: > > > What is probably happening is that in VPATH builds from your tarball, > > > your documentation is being rebuilt even though it was distributed. > > > This is leaving f

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2014-11-12 21:58 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > On 2014-11-12 > Nick Bowler wrote: > > What is probably happening is that in VPATH builds from your tarball, > > your documentation is being rebuilt even though it was distributed. > > This is leaving files behind in your build directory, which dist

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-12 Nick Bowler wrote: > Hello, > > On 2014-11-11 22:07 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > > On 2014-11-11 > > Simon Richter wrote: > > > On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: > > > > > > > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get > > > > cleaned by `make

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.11.2014 22:02, fr33domlover wrote: > > >> If they are distributed, the distcheck target should not complain, > >> because it should expect the files to be there. > > > The files are not specified in any variable with 'dist_' prefix. They are >

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-12 Thread Nick Bowler
Hello, On 2014-11-11 22:07 +0200, fr33domlover wrote: > On 2014-11-11 > Simon Richter wrote: > > On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: > > > > > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get > > > cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 22:02, fr33domlover wrote: >> If they are distributed, the distcheck target should not complain, >> because it should expect the files to be there. > The files are not specified in any variable with 'dist_' prefix. They are > distributed because I wrote a dist-hook. Normally I

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.11.2014 21:07, fr33domlover wrote: > > >> When the files are distributed, the "distcheck" should recognize that > >> these belong in the source package, and not show an error. > > > Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to make sure

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 21:07, fr33domlover wrote: >> When the files are distributed, the "distcheck" should recognize that >> these belong in the source package, and not show an error. > Hmmm I think I didn't make myself clear. So just to make sure, before I cause > confusion: The files are indeed di

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-11-11 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: > > > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get > > cleaned by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my > > package this is not an error. > > If you assume tha

Re: Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11.11.2014 18:50, fr33domlover wrote: > When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML files don't get > cleaned > by `make distclean`. That makes sense, but specifically for my package this is > not an error. If you assume that few people build these files, they should be distr

Rarely rebuilt files

2014-11-11 Thread fr33domlover
Hello, I have a package with code and a reference manual. The manual is rarely rebuilt and requires several less usual tools (dot, doxygen, etc.) so I decided to put the generated HTML files in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES and not DISTCLEANFILES. When I ran `make distcheck`, it failed because the HTML fi