On 03/31/2011 08:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
This exposes several problems in the docs/Makefile.am
- make clean doesn't work in a VPATH build because for some reason the HTML is generated in the $srcdir
Intentional - docs are machine independent and therefore may be distributed, and by distributing them, others don't have to have the tools to rebuild them. Distributed files should generally be built in srcdir
and so 'rm -f *.html' misses the files
So that's the real bug - the clean hook needs to be prefixed with $(srcdir).
Actually, 'make clean' must _not_ remove generated files. Otherwise, there's no point in shipping them pre-generated - the first 'make clean' would nuke them and the user without the tools to regenerate them would be stuck. Rather, 'make maintainer-clean' should be taught how to remove them, since the maintainer is expected to have the necessary extra prerequisite tools. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org