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From: | Joe Neeman |
Subject: | Re: lybook-db and make xxx-clean |
Date: | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:52:08 +1000 |
Graham Percival wrote:Because docs building is so complicated that it's quite hairy to write
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:12:26 +1000
> "Joe Neeman" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Mandereau
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Incomplete test-clean and web-clean can be cumbersome when you're
> > > working on C++ code, but it's very useful when you don't want to
> > > rebuild all lp-book snippets, e.g. when you edit the documentation
> > > or hack documentation building.
> >
> > If you don't want to rebuild all of the snippets, why do 'make
> > web-clean' in the first place?
makefiles, so that all portions of the docs that changed since last
build are actually rebuilt. I experienced that the best way testing
changes in doc building is cleaning all output and rebuilding from
scratch, although I'm generally not interested in rebuilding snippets.
In topdir/out/lybook-db, it's not possible to make a difference between
> I agree; `make web-clean' should remove anything created by `make web'.
what was created by web or test make targets. However, I made web-clean
and test-clean erase topdir/out/lybook-db, which seems to be what most
people building Lily expect.
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