Re: [PATCH] Fix and clean up man page building

From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: May 20, 2005, 14:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20050520145211.GB27395@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <m37jhu56ta.fsf@harinath.blr.novell.com>

Raja R Harinath <rharinath@novell.com> wrote Fri, May 20, 2005:

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> Hi,
> 
> Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> writes:
> 
> > +%.7 : %.1
> > +	# FIXME: this next line works around an output filename bug in asciidoc 6.0.3
> > +	if [ -f "$<" ]; then mv $< $@; fi
> > +
> >  %.1 %.7 : %.xml
> >  	xmlto man $<
> > -	# FIXME: this next line works around an output filename bug in asciidoc 6.0.3
> > -	[ "$@" = "git.7" ] || mv git.1 $@
> >  
> >  %.xml : %.txt
> >  	asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage $<
> 
> That doesn't look right.  I think you want
> 
>   %.7: %.xml
>       xmlto man %<
>
>   %.1: %.xml
>        xmlto man $<
>        [ test -f $@ ] || mv git.1 $@

[ Looks like you mixed up %.1 and %.7 ]

Yes, separating the rule for %.1 and %.7 might be clearer. But it would be great if it would work for any man page in section 7 not just git.7. Since I hope to add cogito.7 soon.

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Jonas Fonseca