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Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:44:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info"
- References: <20181020183429.21188-1-tom@tromey.com>
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:34:29 -0600
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
> I've broken "make info" a couple of times now, because I sometimes
> forget to run "make info" after modifying a Texinfo file.
>
> I don't know why gdb's "make all" doesn't build the info pages. I
> suspect this was some Cygnus-local oddity back in the day.
>
> This patch changes doc/Makefile.in so that the info pages are built by
> "make all". As a point of reference, Automake has essentially always
> worked this way. According to the Automake manual (I didn't
> double-check) this is required by the GNU coding standards.
>
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog
> 2018-10-20 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>
> * Makefile.in (all): Depend on "info".
I'm in favor of this change.
Kevin