"make dist" shouldn't create doxygen documentation

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Mon Oct 10 15:25:20 EDT 2005


Hi Chris,

Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 21:18 schrieb Chris Shoemaker:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:32:57PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Just recently I discovered that our Makefile rules are set up in a way
> > that will include the doxygen HTML output into the "make dist" tarball
> > packages. This is true for both HEAD and gnome2-dev CVS and, even worse,
> > also for gnucash-1-8-branch.
> >
> > I propose to remove that rules altogether. The doxygen HTML documentation
> > is only interesting for developers who really want to program. 
>
> I've run 'make dist' about 100 times over the past week, so I'd be
> glad to save the time spent generating doxygen docs.  At the very
> least, (if we don't remove it altogether) can we make it last rather
> than so early on?

We should simply remove it altogether. You can already do that locally when 
you're doing a lot of make dist{check}: Remove the dist-hook and the 
install-data-hook from src/doc/Makefile.am. There you are. I'll remove that 
in 2-3 days unless there's some really important objection.

Christian


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