Re: [PATCH] When generating manpages, delete outdated targets first.

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David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes:

> This makes "make doc" work even if you made "sudo make doc" previously
> by mistake.  Apparently an oversight: the other targets did this already.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/Makefile |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> index 3bc5357..a186843 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
> @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ clean:
>  	mv $@+ $@
>  
>  %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml
> +	$(RM) $@+ $@
>  	xmlto -m callouts.xsl man $<
>  
>  %.xml : %.txt

I think "rm" makes sense; the call to xmlto in this Makefile has
been this way from day one, it seems ;-).

The build rule for this target does not use "generate to
temporary $@+ and after that is successful mv to the final $@"
pattern, so we do not have to remove $@+ in this target, though.

Thanks.

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