[Gretl-devel] revisions to build process

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but more generally I'm trying to ensure that the docs get (re-)built always and only when they're non-existent or out of date.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). That means that you can safely delete the "orphan" versions under <src>/share, as in cd <your-gretl-source>/share rm -f gretl_*ref.* gretl_gui_help.* gretlhelp.refs Also, I've got rid of the "stamp" files that we were using to signal that the helpfiles had been built -- with the exception of one called fig.stamp. So you can clean these up in <src>/share: rm -f *.stamp # delete all touch fig.stamp # but reconstitute this one I still need to think about how best to get rid of fig.stamp. Allin