Hi Dan, On 28 August 2018 at 23:19, Daniel Stone <dani...@collabora.com> wrote: > Make considers a variable called VPATH when trying to satisfy > dependencies, e.g. for a target 'foo', it will consider the target > extant if VPATH is '../../bar' and '../../bar/foo' exists. > > Part of the doc build, the '$(alldirs)' target, exists to create the > target directories if they do not exist. For example, before generating > xml/wayland-architecture.png, it will ensure the 'xml' target is > considered up-to-date thanks to the target dependency. > > Creating $(srcdir)/doc/doxygen/xml thus means that the 'xml' dependency > will be satisfied, so we'll never create the output directory, and the > doc build will fail. > > Change the alldirs target list to be absolute paths, so VPATH will not > be consulted and defeat the entire point of what we're trying to do. > This fixes the Meson build, where we later create > doc/doxygen/xml/meson.build. > Have you tried something as trivial as the below sed? s/$(AM_V_GEN)/$(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) $@/g
It will allow you to remove the, dare I say it, bonkers "let's make a target that only creates a folder". Plus avoid all the complexity that you've proposing. -Emil _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
