On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, David Berry wrote:
> > So I vote that we don't bother with hlink in any standard macros,
> > remove the call to it from ast and (very probably) echomop, and if we
> > think it necessary just add a final hlink step to the `make world'
> > rule, possibly via
> >
> > world: $(ALL_TARGETS)
> > @HLINK@ ...
> >
> > How's that?
Norman, that sounds like about right to me, so I'm happy with that idea.
> Do we not also need some way of hlinking documents as part of "make dist"?
> When Bill Joye gets an ast-4.0.tar.gz he will not want to link the docs
> himself (he is unlikely to have htx available anyway).
>
> So should hlink not also be built into the "dist" target in addition to
> the "world" target?
David, if you have some specialist need like hlinking on dist, then you
can use the "dist-hook:" target to add whatever special commands you
require.
Peter.
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