Re: automake help

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 05/22/2017 06:15 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> Current cvs for 5.1 and 5.2 has an odd automake glitch that
> I do not understand.
>
> "make" run on linux creates a file
>     docs/windows/doc2wxhtml-doc2html.o
> that surely isn't needed.
>
> "make dist" includes that file in the generated tarball.
> Other *.o files are discarded when packing up the files
> for distribution.  Why not this one?
> Why does it even exist in the first place?

ChangeLog has some entries:

ChangeLog:	in turn is triggered by docs/doc2wxhtml requring src/version.c.
ChangeLog:	* docs/Makefile.am (doc2wxhtml_SOURCES): Remove use of version.c.
ChangeLog:	* docs/Makefile.am (noinst_PROGRAMS): Add doc2wxhtml.
ChangeLog:	(doc2wxhtml_SOURCES, doc2wxhtml_CPPFLAGS): Use automake to build

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2016-01-16  Hans-Bernhard Broeker  <br...@ph...>

Dan