From kde-core-devel  Sat May 13 18:29:39 2000
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:29:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: CVS and multiple systems
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Uwe Thiem wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> > docs-am: HTML HTML/index.html
> >
> > HTML:
> >         test -d HTML || mkdir HTML
> >
> > HTML/index.html: HTML index.docbook
> >         @test -d HTML && rm -r HTML
> >         $(KDB2HTML) $(srcdir)/index.docbook
> >
> >
> > As you see, I tried hard to let make create the directory. I have no
> > idea
> > why it fails for you ;(
> 
> Now I know why it as failed for me. I hate mysteries. Well, actually I
> love them; what I hate is when I can't seem to solve them. ;-)
> 
> "make -d" made clear what happened. Before I used srcdir != builddir
> I build KDE in srcdir. Before I changed to srcdir != builddir
> I did a "make distclean" in srcdir but that didn't remove the HTML
> directories there.
> 
> "make" in builddir also considers the HMTL directories in srcdir and
> therefore skips the HTML: rule.
> 
> So this should only be a problem if someone (like me) changes to
> srcdir != builddir without nuking srcdir and doing a new checkout.
> 
Good. Don't think it will happen to often. Next time do a cvs-clean :)

Greetings, Stephan

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