# [PATCH] Have make fail when $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) fails in building gitman.texi

1 messages from 2009-05-24 to 2009-05-24. Participants: Samuel Bronson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19488

## Samuel Bronson, 2009-05-24 22:51

Subject: [PATCH] Have make fail when $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) fails in building gitman.texi
Message-ID: <1243205465-12139-1-git-send-email-naesten@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1243205465-12139-1-git-send-email-naesten%40gmail.com

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This is handy for when docbook2x isn't installed. Without this change,
we would just build a mostly-empty gitman.texi rather than failing as we
should.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/Makefile |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 144ec32..2998f0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -205,9 +205,11 @@ user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml
 	mv $@+ $@
 
 gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl
-	$(RM) $@+ $@
+	$(RM) $@++ $@+ $@
 	($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \
-		--to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+
+		--to-stdout $(xml);)) >$@++
+	$(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ <$@++ >$@+
+	$(RM) $@++
 	mv $@+ $@
 
 gitman.info: gitman.texi
-- 
1.6.3.1

```