Hi Karl, Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:28:52PM CET:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011, Karl Berry wrote:
> > (Aside: I'm just curious, what can dvi-local actually be used for?
> > If there's a known use for it, I suggest mentioning it in the doc.)
> >
> If there is a known use, I don't know it; sorry!
Well, say I have a LaTeX document and my own rules to build it. I want
DVI output of it to be available through 'make dvi', in addition to
Texinfo sources that also produce some DVI output (through the automake-
generated rules). Then I write
dvi-local: foo.dvi
foo.dvi: ...
...
Generally, the *-local rules are the default way to extend targets for
which automake provides rules. They all work the same way. Nothing
fancy here, but definitely useful.
> That's already implemented (well, almost -- it's not true for few special
> targets, like `all' and `check'; maybe we should fix this inconsistency?)
Yes; I actually have worked on these two targets (after it came up in
the gnu make discussions with Xan Lopez elsewhere) but am not done yet.
They are a bit nontrivial to fix.
I'm closing this bug as it seems to have been cleared up.
Thanks,
Ralf
