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Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of the manpage an


From: Michal Marek
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of the manpage and README
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:41:27 +0200
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On 2015-06-03 17:16, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Le Wednesday 03 June 2015 à 15:27 +0200, Michal Marek a écrit :
>> Sorry, I meant doc/reference.tmp. The problem is that make does not know
>> about it. It only sees doc/reference, which is older than quilt/setup
>> and executes the rule to remake doc/reference. Which does not remake it,
>> so the doc files will not be remade, but running all the scripts takes
>> some time.
> 
> Ah, OK, I see it now. That's why "make" no longer replies "Nothing to be
> done for 'default'" on subsequent calls. But your own patch suffers from
> the same problem, as the doc/reference may not actually rebuild
> doc/reference.

Right, but it uses doc/reference.tmp to store the result of the (costly)
loop over all the commands.


> I start thinking that the cure does more bad than good :(

Feel free to drop it. I was just curious why is the documentation
rebuilt each time I save one of the *.in files :).

Michal




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