[GRASS-dev] man/Makefile -> include/Make/Man.make ?

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Apr 12 09:43:34 EDT 2009


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at 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


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