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[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> > version of bogofilter across multiple targets, I have to manually copy
> >> > the formatted documents in the 'doc' subdirectory to the 'doc'
> >> > subdirectory for the target being built (I configure/build bogofilter
> >> > from outside the source directory).
>
> Getting back to the original question, factoring out a "doc" target
> isn't trivial with automake. I'm not sure if I want to do it. Try using
> GNU make (assume it's called gmake): ( cd doc && gmake -t ) -- it will
> not rebuild the targets, but fake them (using a "touch" equivalent).

No, it is actually quite easy since Automake passes traditional make
targets through to the output Makefile.in.  This means you can simply
add

docs:
	do something

to the Makefile.in.  If you want this to be tied to some other
standard target, then you can use one of the Automake -hook targets.

It is also quite easy to make this behavior conditional using a
configure option and Automake conditionals.

The problem with the 'gmake -t' approach (which I did use once) is
that the result makes for very short reading and is not very
informative. :-)

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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