GNU bug report logs - #60607
Making dvi target do nothing

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 20:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-automake <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Making dvi target do nothing
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 21:53:55 +0100

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I'm using automake 1.16.5. The advice about how to disable the "dvi" target
doesn't seem to work.

In the manual it says:

   To make ‘dvi’ into a do-nothing target, see the example for
‘EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS’ in *note Third-Party Makefiles::.

If I have:

EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS = dvi
.PHONY: $(EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS)
$(EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS):

in my Makefile.am, then "TEXI2DVI" is still run by "make distcheck".

If I instead have:

dvi:

then it is not.

-- 
https://rrt.sc3d.org

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