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Back on https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13104 ...
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:04:15 +0100
From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@HIDDEN>
...
Ideally we could improve the makefile parser to check whether a
target has an associated recipe, and only in that case make it
override a built-in (or a previous user-defined) target; in the
other cases, it should be just considered a declaration of extra
dependencies. After all, that is how (GNU) make itself behaves.
I agree with the "ideally". Unfortunately, apparently no one, including
me, is anxious to undertake a project like that.
However, I can imagine a simpler method of getting the basic
functionality of adding dependencies to a given target: Define a new
command, say, AM_ADD_DEPS, which takes two arguments, a target name and
a list of dependencies. So,
AM_ADD_DEPS(foo, bar baz)
would write
foo: bar baz
into the Makefile.in, with no other effects.
Would that work? Would it be useful? Just a stray thought ... --thanks, karl.
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> Hello,
Hi,
> The usual workaround to add prerequisites to an automake-generated
> rule is to use a one-off make variable for the target name. For
> example,
>
> doc_bison_dvi = doc/bison.dvi
> $(doc_bison_dvi): $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps)
>
> and so on. Automake does a simple string comparison of the target name
> to decide whether or the generated rule is overridden, so using a
> variable will hide the "real" target name from this check. Note that
> this is only appropriate for rules with no commands.
We did something similar, with a little tweak because using three
variables seemed a bit of an overkill:
commit 476af12837af129d36b302e30789c549c85fdadb
Author: Theophile Ranquet <ranquet@HIDDEN>
Date: Tue Dec 4 16:09:24 2012 +0100
doc: fix build dependencies
* doc/local.mk: Avoid overwriting Automake's rules.
diff --git a/doc/local.mk b/doc/local.mk
index aaea996..cef4448 100644
--- a/doc/local.mk
+++ b/doc/local.mk
@@ -20,7 +20,14 @@ doc_bison_TEXINFOS = \
doc/fdl.texi \
doc/gpl-3.0.texi
-TEXI2DVI = texi2dvi --build-dir=doc/bison.t2d
+# Cannot express dependencies directly on file names because of Automake.
+# Obfuscate with a variable.
+doc_bison = doc/bison
+$(doc_bison).dvi: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps)
+$(doc_bison).pdf: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf)
+$(doc_bison).html: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.html)
+
+TEXI2DVI = texi2dvi --build-dir=doc/bison.t2d -I doc
CLEANDIRS = doc/bison.t2d
clean-local:
rm -rf $(CLEANDIRS)
@@ -123,10 +130,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
$(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png)
SUFFIXES += .dot .eps .pdf .png
-doc/bison.dvi: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps)
-doc/bison.html: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png)
-doc/bison.pdf: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf)
-
.dot.eps:
$(AM_V_GEN) $(MKDIR_P) `echo "./$@" | sed -e 's,/[^/]*$$,,'`
$(AM_V_at) $(DOT) -Gmargin=0 -Teps $< >$@.tmp
> Hope that helps,
It did, thanks!
bug-automake@HIDDEN:bug#13104; Package automake.
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On 12/06/2012 11:16 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > Hello, > > On 2012-12-06 16:41 +0100, Theophile Ranquet wrote: >> I am seeking advice for a workaround of what seems like a limitation >> in Automake (1.12.2). >> >> We have recently added figures to Bison's documentation. These figures >> are included by our texinfo source by using "@image", which requires >> different image formats depending on what we want to produce. For >> convenience's sake, these figures are generated from Graphviz DOT >> files, so we tried adding the following to our doc/local.mk: >> >> doc/bison.dvi: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) >> doc/bison.html: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png) >> doc/bison.pdf: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) >> >> However, these overwrite Automake's rules. > Yeah, a long-standing behaviour, but one that I've never liked. Ideally we could improve the makefile parser to check whether a target has an associated recipe, and only in that case make it override a built-in (or a previous user-defined) target; in the other cases, it should be just considered a declaration of extra dependencies. After all, that is how (GNU) make itself behaves. This is something to consider for Automake 1.14 (which will only be released several months from now, at best). Patches would be extremely welcome :-) In the meantime ... >> This seems a bit similar, >> in that regard, to the issue discussed here: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-11/msg00015.html > > The usual workaround to add prerequisites to an automake-generated > rule is to use a one-off make variable for the target name. For > example, > > doc_bison_dvi = doc/bison.dvi > $(doc_bison_dvi): $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) > > and so on. Automake does a simple string comparison of the target name > to decide whether or the generated rule is overridden, so using a > variable will hide the "real" target name from this check. Note that > this is only appropriate for rules with no commands. > ... I'd follow this suggestion from Nick, which is absolutely correct. >> (Note that in another branch we are using multiple Makefiles, and in >> that branch adding the previous lines to our doc/Makefile.am has the >> desired effect, though I am not sure why... is this a bug or a >> feature?) > > Hard to say without looking a concrete example, but the most likely > explanation is that the Automake-generated rules are different in the > recursive case, such that your custom rules don't actually override > anything. > > Hope that helps, Thanks, Stefano
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We have recently added figures to Bison's documentation. These figures are included by our texinfo source by using "@image", which requires different image formats depending on what we want to produce. For convenience's sake, these figures are generated from Graphviz DOT files, so we tried adding the following to our doc/local.mk: doc/bison.dvi: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) doc/bison.html: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png) doc/bison.pdf: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) However, these overwrite Automake's rules. This seems a bit similar, in that regard, to the issue discussed here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-11/msg00015.html (Note that in another branch we are using multiple Makefiles, and in that branch adding the previous lines to our doc/Makefile.am has the desired effect, though I am not sure why... is this a bug or a feature?) The best solution we could come up with was to add these to doc_bison_TEXINFOS, as follows, but this is a bit troublesome as it causes the regeneration of all three filetypes whenever a documentation is built, even when none is actually required (e.g. for 'make info' which uses .txt versions): doc_bison_TEXINFOS = \ $(CROSS_OPTIONS_TEXI) \ doc/fdl.texi \ - doc/gpl-3.0.texi + doc/gpl-3.0.texi \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png) \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) If it is not possible to add custom dependencies to these Automake rules, what whould you recommend doing? FWIW, I have attached a diff showing the rules being overwritten by the prior "solution". Thanks! ------=_20121206164124_43539 Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="Makefile.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Makefile.diff" --- /tmp/Makefile 2012-12-06 15:33:29.469105426 +0100 +++ _build/Makefile 2012-12-06 16:35:35.772540139 +0100 @@ -2223,7 +2223,10 @@ doc_bison_TEXINFOS = \ $(CROSS_OPTIONS_TEXI) \ doc/fdl.texi \ - doc/gpl-3.0.texi + doc/gpl-3.0.texi \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png) \ + $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) TEXI2DVI = texi2dvi --build-dir=doc/bison.t2d CLEANDIRS = doc/bison.t2d doc/figs doc/html @@ -3989,6 +3992,30 @@ $$restore $$backupdir/* `echo "./$@" | sed 's|[^/]*$$||'`; \ fi; \ rm -rf $$backupdir; exit $$rc + +doc/bison.dvi: doc/bison.texi $(srcdir)/doc/version.texi $(doc_bison_TEXINFOS) doc/$(am__dirstamp) + $(AM_V_TEXI2DVI)TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ + MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I doc -I $(srcdir)/doc' \ + $(TEXI2DVI) $(AM_V_texinfo) --clean -o $@ `test -f 'doc/bison.texi' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`doc/bison.texi $(AM_V_texidevnull) + +doc/bison.pdf: doc/bison.texi $(srcdir)/doc/version.texi $(doc_bison_TEXINFOS) doc/$(am__dirstamp) + $(AM_V_TEXI2PDF)TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ + MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I doc -I $(srcdir)/doc' \ + $(TEXI2PDF) $(AM_V_texinfo) --clean -o $@ `test -f 'doc/bison.texi' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`doc/bison.texi $(AM_V_texidevnull) + +doc/bison.html: doc/bison.texi $(srcdir)/doc/version.texi $(doc_bison_TEXINFOS) doc/$(am__dirstamp) + $(AM_V_MAKEINFO)rm -rf $(@:.html=.htp) + $(AM_V_at)if $(MAKEINFOHTML) $(AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I doc -I $(srcdir)/doc \ + -o $(@:.html=.htp) `test -f 'doc/bison.texi' || echo '$(srcdir)/'`doc/bison.texi; \ + then \ + rm -rf $@; \ + if test ! -d $(@:.html=.htp) && test -d $(@:.html=); then \ + mv $(@:.html=) $@; else mv $(@:.html=.htp) $@; fi; \ + else \ + if test ! -d $(@:.html=.htp) && test -d $(@:.html=); then \ + rm -rf $(@:.html=); else rm -Rf $(@:.html=.htp) $@; fi; \ + exit 1; \ + fi $(srcdir)/doc/version.texi: $(srcdir)/doc/stamp-vti $(srcdir)/doc/stamp-vti: doc/bison.texi $(top_srcdir)/configure test -f doc/$(am__dirstamp) || $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) doc/$(am__dirstamp) @@ -5040,10 +5067,6 @@ fi $(AM_V_at)rm -f $@*.t -doc/bison.dvi: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps) -doc/bison.html: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.png) -doc/bison.pdf: $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.pdf) - .dot.eps: $(AM_V_GEN) $(MKDIR_P) `echo "./$@" | sed -e 's,/[^/]*$$,,'` $(AM_V_at) $(DOT) -Gmargin=0 -Teps $< >$@.tmp ------=_20121206164124_43539--
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