[Pkg-lyx-devel] Problems with the automatic control file generation

[Georg Baum]

Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 18:57 schrieb Sven Hoexter:
> Hi all,
> I'm not really happy with the current way to generate the control file
> because they're not properly created in all situations.
> E.g. I checked out a fresh copy from svn and modified the rules to build
> with the gtk frontend. The problem is now that all control* files have
> the same timestamp so the control file is not recreated.

The control* files should not be in svn, only the template. Then you don't 
have that problem (assuming that I got the dependencies right)

> I'm not a makefile pro but it would be nice if we could somehow force
> make to recreate the control file on every run independend from what make
> claims based on the timestamp.

If you want to, you can create an empty target FORCE and let the control* 
files depend on it:


FORCE:


control-qt: FORCE


Georg