On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 08:46, Nick Bowler <nbow...@draconx.ca> wrote: > > This example in the manual is talking about writing a custom > Makefile, *without* using Automake, that you want to recurse > into using Automake's SUBDIRS feature. >
Aha! Thanks for pointing this out. I think the manual is misleading in another place, because I got to this section via this cross-reference: To make ‘dvi’ into a do-nothing target, see the example for ‘EMPTY_AUTOMAKE_TARGETS’ in *note Third-Party Makefiles::. This is in the section "dvi and distcheck", which AFAICT is about Makefile.am, not third-party Makefiles. > If I instead have: > > > > dvi: > > > > then it is not. > > This is right way to override the dvi target that would > otherwise be generated by Automake. > So it seems that this is what the section "dvi and distcheck" should advise. -- https://rrt.sc3d.org
