[Plplot-devel] Dependency issues straightened out for docbook tree

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

I finally got a chance today to fix up a lot of dependency issues in the
docbook/Makefile.am and docbook/src/Makefile.am.  I replaced all file.in
prerequisites by file prerequisites where appropriate (as Rafael suggested
it was possible to do now). Rafael, could you give it a try and see whether
your recent autoconf fix cuts down on unnecessary building for these
tightened rules?

I also have added many other prerequisites that were just plain missing
before. (One of those nailed me early this morning which highly motivated
today's work!)

I have also changed to a clearer style where you use ordinary automake
commands rather than a recursive make to build the targets that are
required.

The only make commands left in these Makefile.am files are the necessary
recursive makes used to iterate the jadetex and pdfjadetex commands and

$(MAKE) dist && touch dist-stamp

which I guess is necessary for the overall make dist to work properly. (Or
is there a make dist hook of some kind to do the same thing?)

I also rebuilt the documentation and uploaded it to the web site using

make www-install

Now that the dependencies are working properly, it is a simple matter to do
this after cvs updating any one else's documentation fix (or if I make a
documentation change myself).  It also sounds like Joao is very close to
being able to build and www-install the documentation as well.

I finally may get a chance to look at building the documentation on RH 7.3 and
8.0 tomorrow, but no promises.

Alan

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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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