Re: Race condition in doc build

[rik]

On 07/31/2015 10:53 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 07/31/2015 12:30 PM, Rik wrote:
>
>> This may need to be amended to depend on octave.ps as well.
>> Theoretically, that should be enough since octave.ps is created through
>> dvips which will require building octave.dvi first.  But maybe it is
>> safer to have octave.pdf depend on BOTH octave.dvi and octave.ps.
>
> Doesn't octave.ps already depend on octave.dvi?

I believe indirectly through a %.ps : %.dvi rule which is why I don't think
it's necessary in the dependency list, but sometimes its easier to be
redundant than to formally prove there isn't an issue with depending on
octave.ps alone.

--Rik