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LaTeX and automake
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Message #17 received at 8099 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 27 February 2011 14:42, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> wrote:
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> Well yes. Also, as you already mentioned, latex semantics don't really
> fit a directed graph where the nodes are files; rather, it needs a more
> complex diagram of states of sets of files. I don't think trying to map
> that to portable make would be a worthwhile endeavor, given that latexmk
> already exists. I think we should just try to find rules that are safe
> in the sense of: they call out to latexmk when needed, and not too often
> when it is not needed.
So I was thinking, latexmk could output a list of dependent files for
a given root file, and Make simply calls latexmk when any of them
changes.
> That could be an improvement. Or, as a first step, just calling latexmk
> every time. Does it do anything if files are up to date?
No, which is a good start!
> Do you happen to know if latexmk works with pgfplots?
It doesn't seem to know about it.
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