#650 Circular pdf/svg messages

[Jonathan Dushoff]

I see lots and lots of messages about circular pdf/svg dependencies and can't figure out where they are coming from.

Here is a MRE with a broken set of rules: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/Latex_making.

And here is a wild example where the making works, but produces lots of warnings (not guaranteed to persist, but you should be able to reconstruct it by sync-ing if necessary) http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/lab/index.php/Special:GetProjectFile?project=Fsrn_heterogeneity_ms&make=false&filename=FSRNms.pdf.make.log.

AFAICT, the rules actually make what they need to make, but the warnings are confusing, especially to my users.

[Lee Worden]

Yeah, that's because I added a %.pdf : %.svg rule for use in the markup processing, when we already have a %.svg : %.pdf rule for making tex figures into vector graphics for the wiki. I think I'm having trouble with it too. We should remove the new rule and I'll have to do something smarter with that.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

Wild, meaning naturally occuring, not radically interesting...

Don't know why I couldn't find the new rule. In the past, I've dealt with these situations simply by giving the newer targets longer names, e.g. target.pdf.svg, or target.display.svg

[Lee Worden]

Ha ha!

In this case I think I should just take the rule out and figure out what I want sometime later.

[Lee Worden]

ps. you probably didn't see it because it's hidden in makefile-after-tex-output-format, which is intended to be used only when the output format is .tex, in fact, why are you seeing it at all? I should look into that too.

[Anonymous]

Still weirdness going on with that new after- file. http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/lab/index.php/Keegan_PhD was repeatedly replacing the source file hetero.tex with the text from your txtlisting command. I now have an explicit rule for hetero.tex

[Lee Worden]

I see. I've commented out that recipe now.

On 06/22/2015 09:11 AM, noreply@in.sf.net wrote:

Still weirdness going on with that new after- file.
http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/lab/index.php/Keegan_PhD was
repeatedly replacing the /source/ file hetero.tex with the text from
your txtlisting command. I now have an explicit rule for hetero.tex