Re: more compiling questions

[Mark Polesky]

Mark Polesky wrote:
> 1) Is there a difference between...
>    ...`make doc' and `make doc *'?

Now I see.  It was a misreading of the `make help' output.
Commands that recurse into subdirectories are marked with a
star (*):

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-e Generic targets:
  all *       update everything except documentation ....
  clean *     remove all generated stuff in ./out
  bin-clean * same as clean, except that mf/out is preserved
  default     same as the empty target
  doc *       update documentation with images in ....
  doc-stage-1 * update only PDF and Info documentation ....
  doc-clean * clean `out-www' directory
  exe         update all executables
  help        this help
  install *   install programs and data ....
  lib         update all libraries
  uninstall*  uninstall programs and data
  TAGS        generate tagfiles

`make' may be invoked from any subdirectory.
Note that all commands marked with a star (*) recurse into
subdirectories; prepend `local-' to restrict operation to
the current directory.  Example: `local-clean'.

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  Anyone mind if I change that to something like this?

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Generic targets that recurse into subdirectories*:
  all          update everything except documentation ....
  clean        remove all generated stuff in ./out
  bin-clean    same as clean, except that mf/out is ....
  doc          update documentation with images in ....
  doc-stage-1  update only PDF and Info documentation ....
  doc-clean    clean `out-www' directory
  install      install programs and data ....
  uninstall    uninstall programs and data

  *Note: Prepend `local-' (eg. `local-clean') to restrict
         any of the above commands to the current directory.

Other generic targets:
  default      same as the empty target
  exe          update all executables
  help         this help
  lib          update all libraries
  TAGS         generate tagfiles

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Also, the use of address@hidden -e' in the makefiles (you can grep
for it) actually outputs the "-e", as you can see with the
`make help' output.  Is it safe to remove the `-e' from the
source?  Or is it actually needed?

Thanks.
- Mark