Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > However, what if a plugin's Makefile doesn't provide an > 'install-doc' target? You might want to make sure this > doesn't cause tons of error messages. What we would also how about an additional grep like that? : install-doc-plugins: @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do\ if grep -q "install-doc:" "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i/Makefile" ; then\ $(MAKE) -i -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" install-doc;\ fi;\ done; > need is the appropriate change to the 'newplugin' script. I would suggest the following for 'newplugin': install-doc: \@echo No documents to install for \$(PACKAGE) BR, Christian