Re: patches to gnucap-2006-07-08

al davis wrote:
> On Thursday 17 August 2006 08:00, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 
>>>but why ever totally remove the man/html directory?  Why
>>>not just remove all of the generated files in there?  Or
>>>does HeVeA have some issue with that?
>>
> On Thursday 17 August 2006 08:00, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 
>>Pardon me for butting in here.  I basically agree with Dan. 
>>In other projects I've seen, an empty directory for stuff yet
>>to be built will still have the Makefile.am in it to enable
>>building the directory's contents using the GNU build stuff. 
>>It makes the lives of the developers (and downstream users)
>>sooooo much easier than trying to fool the automake system
>>some other way.
> 
> 
> It is something else to maintain.
> 
> Why is that file needed at all?  All it does is list the files 
> so they will be in the distribution file.  Since the whole 
> thing is generated, the file names are not known ahead, so it 
> is a wildcard list anyway.  Why not just list "html/*" in the 
> parent's Makefile?


I'll see if I can do this.  It will be next week before I have a chance 
to look at it though.

-Dan