Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc., revision2

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Sure, having to revise one's Makefile.am on Automake upgrades is
> a pain.  I don't really see what else we could do.  (Never
> introducing new targets doesn't look like a solution to me.)  It
> sounds like we ought have diagnostics to help the transition by
> spotting such troublesome rules.  How would we catch these?
> Right now the only thing I can think of is to add something
> like:
>   -Woverride Warn when a user rule override an Automake rule

Do they actually override? Does make choose the first or second occurrence of
the rule? Is it deterministic? Or does it depend on the make program?

How about:

    -Wclash Warn when a user rule clashes with an Automake rule

Bye, Rich =]

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