[Gretl-devel] Re: revisions to build process

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: > Here's something that people building gretl from the git sources should > note. (It's not relevant if you're building from a released source > package.) > > I've recently revised the Makefiles for the gretl documentation (both > "online" and PDF). This was motivated by build problems on Windows, but > more generally I'm trying to ensure that the docs get (re-)built always and > only when they're non-existent or out of date. > > As part of this effort I've changed the location of the compiled helpfiles, > namely > > gretl_cli_cmdref.<lang> > gretl_gui_cmdref.<lang> > gretl_gui_help.<lang> > gretl_cli_fnref.<lang> > gretl_gui_fnref.<lang> > gretlhelp.refs > > We used to do something kinda anomalous: even when building outside of the > source tree we wrote these files into the "share" subdirectory of the > source tree itself (rationale: so they were automatically in place for a > non-git source package). > > Now these files get written to doc/commands in the build tree (and "make > install" is revised to find them OK). A question: so far, after editing the xml files, I've used "make install -C share" to make sure the new versions get copied into the right subdir so I could test them. Is this still the case, or shoud this become "make install -C doc"?