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Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc., revision 2


From: Ralf Corsepius
Subject: Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc., revision 2
Date: 05 Mar 2003 05:07:36 +0100

Am Mit, 2003-03-05 um 00.22 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:

> I think we face the same problem every time Automake introduces
> a new target: collision with existing targets.  For instance
> Automake 1.7 introduced `ctags', `ps', and `pdf', so now you
> can't build any programs with these names.  Now you couldn't
> build a program named `html' either.

> Sure, having to revise one's Makefile.am on Automake upgrades is
> a pain.  I don't really see what else we could do.  (Never
> introducing new targets doesn't look like a solution to me.)  It
> sounds like we ought have diagnostics to help the transition by
> spotting such troublesome rules.  How would we catch these?
> Right now the only thing I can think of is to add something
> like: 
>   -Woverride Warn when a user rule override an Automake rule
> 
> Any other idea?
Invent a namespace of make-targets reserved for automake-generated
PHONY-make-targets? Eg. am-<TARGET> or am_<TARGET>.

Ralf






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