Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 09:08:01AM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     OK, dvi, ps and pdf would be removed at `clean'.  But should't
>     `mostlyclean' remove the xref files?  (I mean all but dvi, ps and
>     pdf.)  So the *.t2d and *.t2p subdirs would be removed by
>     `mostlyclean'.
> 
> I don't see the point of complicating matters.  It is simpler to remove
> all the files at the same time.

`mostlyclean' removes object files, while the linked binary is removed by
`clean'.  I can see an analogy: mostlyclean would remove xref files, while
dvi and ps would be removed by `clean'.

I've never used `mostlyclean' but when it exists, Automake should support
it reasonably.

Stepan