Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 02/26] [ng] texi: tweak rules for HTML generation to spawn only one shell

[Akim Demaille]

Le 17 juin 2012 à 09:41, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

>> Why such an extension?
>> 
> It was already in the pre-existing code.

Yes, I know.

>  And about the reason it was there,
> I guess it was to cater to systems with 8+3 filenames (e.g., DJGPP on DOS),

I guessed too :)

> where one can't have file names with "two or more extensions" (like
> 'config.h.in' or, in this case, foo.html.tmp).
> 
>> address@hidden looks more readable.
>> 
> Or ever 'address@hidden', for consistency with other rules.

I don't like this use of -t instead of an extension such as .tmp, but
I don't care much.

>  But I guess such changes
> are better done in a later refactoring, to rationalize the names/location of
> temporary files.  WDYS?

Yes, of course.  I was commenting the code more than the patch per se,
but I do mean to suggest changes.

> 
>>>     then \
>>>       rm -rf $@; \
>>> ## Work around a bug in Texinfo 4.1 (-o foo.html outputs files in foo/

BTW, looks like something we can get rid of.

>>> -- 
>>> 1.7.9.5
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Regards,
>  Stefano