Re: automake help

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 22 May 2017, 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?

In docs/Makefile.am, the EXTRA_DIST variable includes "windows". Not 
sure, but I guess that would drag in anything that gets created in 
the windows directory? (Unless one builds out of tree, which is 
generally a good idea anyway.)

In docs/Makefile.in we have references to this thing 
windows/doc2wxhtml-doc2html.o. That's the only object file to be 
written into the docs/windows directory, all the others just go into 
docs. That itself seems like an anomaly.

"Not needed": well, it's "needed" to build the program doc2wxhtml, 
which is apparently not being marked as platform-specific. Is that 
wanted in connection with the wxt terminal at all?

Allin Cottrell