Re: Doc build: circular dependencies dropped?

[Phil Holmes]

"Colin Campbell" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> I just, for the sake of housekeeping, did a source code update with 
> lily-git, nuked my /build, and rebuild ab initio.  The binary build didn't 
> seem odd, but the doc produced the following (many similar lines snipped 
> for brevity):
>
> > make[3]: Circular web.texi <- macros.itexi dependency dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular web.texi <- translations.itexi dependency dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular out-www/notation.texi <- notation.tely dependency 
> > dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular out-www/usage.texi <- usage.tely dependency dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular out-www/notation.texi <- macros.itexi dependency 
> > dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular out-www/notation.texi <- translations.itexi dependency 
> > dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular web.texi <- macros.itexi dependency dropped.
> > make[3]: Circular web.texi <- translations.itexi dependency dropped.
> > /home/colin/lilypond-git/./Documentation/po/GNUmakefile:28: warning: 
> > overriding commands for target `po-update'
> > /home/colin/lilypond-git/stepmake/stepmake/podir-targets.make:14: 
> > warning: ignoring old commands for target `po-update'
> > Mirroring...
> > Processing HTML pages for offline target...
>
> AFAICS, the resulting image is current and correct, so if there is a 
> problem, lilypoond seems to manage anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin


It's been doing that for a while but it's not something I understand.  I 
think John M or Julien would need to fix it.  Suggest you add it to the 
tracker.

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Phil Holmes
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