[OpenAFS-devel] pod2man vandalism

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>:

> Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:
>
>> Another reason to do this in a Makefile is that it currently rebuilds
>> everything (right?) even if it doesn't have to.
>
> One of the main points of make is exactly to not do that.  :)
>
> The problem with doing this purely as a Makefile rule, rather than as a
> similar script in the Makefile which would probably be an improvement, is
> that there's no way to do this sort of mass conversion cleanly without
> either listing all of the man pages again in the Makefile (an annoying
> maintenance problem) or using GNU make features.  That's why I tend to use
> for loops instead.

Why not just have the shell script (regen?) supply the list of files on
the command line when it calls make?  E.g.:

   make PODFILES="`find . -name \*.pod`"

Works great in all versions of make and doesn't depend on GnuMake.

-derek

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