Re: Automake 1.5: Documentation generation

[Jens Krüger]

Hi Steve,

Am Donnerstag,  4. Oktober 2001 17:55 schrieb Steve M. Robbins:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:07:36AM +0200, Lars von Wedel wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > I think the way you propose is the best alternative. Hoever, did you
> > come
> > up with some approach to clean up the documentation? As far as I know,
> > there is no such thing like a clean-hook...
>
> Though I didn't worry about cleaning up, I note that a "clean-local"
> rule is supported according to the automake manual.
>
> One thing I did worry about, though, is "make distcheck".  Since it is
> picky about having files remain after "make install; make uninstall",
> I had to add an "uninstall-local" rule ("uninstall-hook" support is
> broken) as shown below.
>
> > > On the topic of automatically-generated documentation, how does one
> > > handle installing all the zillions of HTML files that doxygen
> > > generates?  I don't know their filenames in advance, so I can't list
> > > them all in noinst_DATA.
> > >
> > > The best I have come up with is to use an install hook as
> > > follows.
> > >
> > >         htmldir = ...
> > >         html_DATA = html/index.html
> > >         install-data-hook:
> > >                 cp -dpR html/* $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)

I think a better way for uninstall is:

uninstall-local:
        for i in `ls html/*` ; do \
                rm -rf $DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$i ; done

to ensure, that only files belonging to the package are removed.

>
> ... and to clean up, add
>
>           uninstall-local:
>                   rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
>
>
> -S

Jens

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