CVS build problem: doc makefile uses incorrect wildcards

Hi Markus,

I'm using the inbuilt documentation building recently incorporated into 
refdb.  Using the '--enable-docs' flag causes the build process to fail 
with the following feedback:

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make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210/doc'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `citationlistx/*', needed by 
`all-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
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This error appears to be in line 28:

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citationlistx_DATA = citationlistx/*
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This appears to be incorrect wildcard usage.  Here is an extract from 
the GNU 'make' info document:

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Wildcard expansion does not happen when you define a variable.
Thus, if you write this:

     objects = *.o

then the value of the variable `objects' is the actual string `*.o'.
However, if you use the value of `objects' in a target, prerequisite or
command, wildcard expansion will take place at that time.  To set
`objects' to the expansion, instead use:

     objects := $(wildcard *.o)
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In this case the variable citationlistx_DATA is literally being set to 
'citationlistx/*' with an unexpanded asterisk.

If the variable declaration is changed to use the 'wildcard' function as 
instructed in the 'make' info page:

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citationlistx_DATA = $(wildcard citationlistx/*)
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then that variable is processed correctly.  The build process then fails 
on the next variable with incorrect wildcard usage:

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make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210/doc'
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=""  dtdparse --title "citationlistx XML DTD" --output 
citationlistx.xml --declaration ../declarations/xml.dcl --system-id 
"http://refdb.sourceforge.net/dtd/citationlistx.dtd" 
../dtd/citationlistx.dtd
Public ID: unknown
System ID: http://refdb.sourceforge.net/dtd/citationlistx.dtd
SGML declaration: ../declarations/xml.dcl
Parse complete.
Writing citationlistx.xml...
Done.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `citationlistx/ele-desc/*', needed 
by `citationlistx/elements.html'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/david/data/computing/projects/refdb/packages/refdb/custom/pkg/debianise/source/refdb-0.0-cvs-20051210'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
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Regards,
David.





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