From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 99201 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2018 21:20:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 99177 invoked by uid 89); 20 Oct 2018 21:20:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=day X-HELO: smtp.polymtl.ca Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca (HELO smtp.polymtl.ca) (132.207.4.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:19:58 +0000 Received: from simark.ca (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id w9KLJptk009835 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:19:56 -0400 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id 96B541EA6D; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from simark.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7AA1E870; Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:19:50 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:20:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Make "all" depend on "info" In-Reply-To: <20181020183429.21188-1-tom@tromey.com> References: <20181020183429.21188-1-tom@tromey.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00454.txt.bz2 On 2018-10-20 14:34, Tom Tromey wrote: > I've broken "make info" a couple of times now, because I sometimes > forget to run "make info" after modifying a Texinfo file. > > I don't know why gdb's "make all" doesn't build the info pages. I > suspect this was some Cygnus-local oddity back in the day. > > This patch changes doc/Makefile.in so that the info pages are built by > "make all". As a point of reference, Automake has essentially always > worked this way. According to the Automake manual (I didn't > double-check) this is required by the GNU coding standards. IIRC, another weird consequence of the current situation is that if you do ./configure && make && sudo make install, the doc artifacts will be generated during make install, so owned by root. I believe everything should be generated by "make", and make install should only install the files in the prefix. Simon