[wish]
Could man/Makefile
be rewritten to include/Make/Man.make
?
This would help to obtain a (almost) functional "make install" target.
My Makefile skills are unfortunately too limited...
Markus
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org> wrote:
[wish]
Could man/Makefile
be rewritten to include/Make/Man.make
?
This would help to obtain a (almost) functional "make install" target.
My Makefile skills are unfortunately too limited...
OK, have submitted that including
make install
target to 6.4.0svn and 6.5svn. No idea how to do it for 7.
Markus
Markus Neteler wrote:
Could man/Makefile
be rewritten to include/Make/Man.make
?
What would be the point? The point of including *.make files is that
you can have a common set of rules which are included in multiple
Makefiles. Given that only man/Makefile would be using those rules,
they may as well go into man/Makefile directly.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
Markus Neteler wrote:
Could man/Makefile
be rewritten to include/Make/Man.make
?What would be the point? The point of including *.make files is that
you can have a common set of rules which are included in multiple
Makefiles. Given that only man/Makefile would be using those rules,
they may as well go into man/Makefile directly.
The point is that for a "make install" target (main, addons) the MAN
page needs to be generated immediately like the HTML file, not in
a global loop.
Markus
Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Could man/Makefile
>> be rewritten to include/Make/Man.make
>> ?
>
> What would be the point? The point of including *.make files is that
> you can have a common set of rules which are included in multiple
> Makefiles. Given that only man/Makefile would be using those rules,
> they may as well go into man/Makefile directly.The point is that for a "make install" target (main, addons) the MAN
page needs to be generated immediately like the HTML file, not in
a global loop.
That's already the case in 7.0. man/Makefile will typically only build
the manpages for the indices; all of the module manpages should
already have been built by that point.
[The original reason for the change was so that any error in
generating the manpage would occur while making the module in
question.]
I'm not contesting the desirability of an "install" target, just the
need for a Man.make file (7.0 has the rules in Html.make, as this is
already included by anything which has HTML documentation from which
the manpage could be built).
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>