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Re: [AUCTeX] feature request: autogenerate a Makefile?
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Sivaram Neelakantan |
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Re: [AUCTeX] feature request: autogenerate a Makefile? |
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Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:35:46 +0530 |
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On Sun, Aug 21 2016,Mosè Giordano wrote:
> Hi Sivaram,
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> 2016-08-17 6:57 GMT+02:00 Sivaram Neelakantan <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
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>> Would it be possible for an option to generate a Makefile based on the
>> local variables that are set for included Tex files?
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> TeX files don't work well with Makefiles, because of unavoidable
> circular dependencies: after the first compilation, auxiliary files
> are generated and then used for subsequent compilations, after which
> they're always updated. So the output file depends on the auxiliary
> files, which in a sense depend on the output file (they're generated
> together).
Thanks for the clarifications.
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sivaram
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