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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix man page dependency on asciidoc.conf

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 5, 2013, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20130105232800.GF3247@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130105160017.GD6440@serenity.lan>
John Keeping wrote:
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> When building manual pages, the source text is transformed to XML with
> AsciiDoc before the man pages are generated from the XML with xmlto.
>
> Fix the dependency in the Makefile so that the XML files are rebuilt
> when asciidoc.conf changes and not just the manual pages from unchanged
> XML.
Good catch, thanks.

Would something like the following make sense, to make it more obvious how the dependency needs to be adjusted if we change the $(ASCIIDOC) command line for some reason?

diff --git i/Documentation/Makefile w/Documentation/Makefile
index e53d333e..971977b8 100644
--- i/Documentation/Makefile
+++ w/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -178,8 +178,6 @@ all: html man
 
 html: $(DOC_HTML)
 
-$(DOC_HTML) $(DOC_MAN1) $(DOC_MAN5) $(DOC_MAN7): asciidoc.conf
-
 man: man1 man5 man7
 man1: $(DOC_MAN1)
 man5: $(DOC_MAN5)
@@ -257,7 +255,7 @@ clean:
 	$(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made
 	$(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl
 
-$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt
+$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
 	$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
 		$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
@@ -270,7 +268,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
 	$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
 	$(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
 
-%.xml : %.txt
+%.xml : %.txt asciidoc.conf
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
 	$(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
 		$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
@@ -286,7 +284,7 @@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \
 	$(QUIET_GEN)cd technical && '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./api-index.sh
 
 technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../
-$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt
+$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
 		$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt
 
diff --git i/t/test-terminal.perl w/t/test-terminal.perl
index 10172aee..1fb373f2 100755
--- i/t/test-terminal.perl
+++ w/t/test-terminal.perl
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ sub finish_child {
 	} elsif ($? & 127) {
 		my $code = $? & 127;
 		warn "died of signal $code";
-		return $code - 128;
+		return $code + 128;
 	} else {
 		return $? >> 8;
 	}
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Message 2 of 6 in “Documentation: fix man page dependency on asciidoc.conf”
  1. Documentation: fix man page dependency on asciidoc.confJohn Keeping, Jan 5, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 5, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2013
  4. docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.confJonathan Nieder, Jan 6, 2013
  5. John KeepingJan 6, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2013

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