On 27 February 2011 14:42, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > > 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. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
