Aside from the discussion in #8289 about alternatives to the hardwired
make dvi being run by make distcheck, there seems to be another problem,
namely putting a simple
dvi:
in a Makefile.am doesn't work to override the default rule. I get an
error like this:
doc/Makefile.am:12: user target `dvi'
I've been working with John Collins to improve latexmk's ability to
work with automake (actually, I've been talking, he's done all the
work).
He's put up a snapshot at: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/trial/
together with a test project.
Thoughts? Very sensibly, I think, John has modell
