Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation/Makefile: add missing xsl dependencies for manpages

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 21:08, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:03 PM Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> wrote:
> > These stylesheets very rarely change, but when they do, it really helps
> > if the manpages depend on them. We're casting the net a bit too wide
> > here, since we'll only ever use a subset of the stylesheets, but since
> > these files change so rarely, that should be ok. It's better than
> > missing a dependency.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> > @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ $(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf
> > -%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl
> > +%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(wildcard manpage*.xsl)
>
> The wildcard expression also matches the manpage-base-url.xsl
> mentioned explicitly. Did you intentionally retain the explicit one or
> was that an oversight?

Hmm, I should have mentioned that, thanks for asking for clarification.

It's intentional. You can see in the context how manpage-base-url.xsl is
actually generated, so the wildcard won't be able to expand to mention
it. That's subtle enough that it warrants being mentioned upfront.


Martin