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Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:13:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
- References: <20181020183429.21188-1-tom@tromey.com>
On Saturday, October 20 2018, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I've broken "make info" a couple of times now, because I sometimes
> forget to run "make info" after modifying a Texinfo file.
>
> I don't know why gdb's "make all" doesn't build the info pages. I
> suspect this was some Cygnus-local oddity back in the day.
>
> This patch changes doc/Makefile.in so that the info pages are built by
> "make all". As a point of reference, Automake has essentially always
> worked this way. According to the Automake manual (I didn't
> double-check) this is required by the GNU coding standards.
I think it makes sense, especially because "info" the default
documentation format for GNU.
I was wondering if it would also make sense to build the documentation
on the BuildBot.
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog
> 2018-10-20 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>
> * Makefile.in (all): Depend on "info".
> ---
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
> gdb/doc/Makefile.in | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/Makefile.in b/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
> index 0323bc4ecb..4e167d59cf 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
> +++ b/gdb/doc/Makefile.in
> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ HAVE_NATIVE_GCORE_TARGET = @HAVE_NATIVE_GCORE_TARGET@
>
> ###
>
> -all:
> +all: info
>
> info: $(INFO_DEPS)
> dvi: gdb.dvi stabs.dvi refcard.dvi annotate.dvi
> --
> 2.17.1
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