[Swan-dev] what should "make ; sudo make install" do (again)

[Andrew Cagney]

On 12 May 2015 at 21:14, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2015, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>  Effectively "programs" and "all" are synonyms.
>>
>
> which is fine with me.
>
>  This means we're going to have to find a new target name for just build
>> programs/executable.  Candidates I've seen so far are:
>>   "make all-programs install-programs"
>>   "make programs-only install-programs"
>>   "make exec install-exec" ("install-exec" comes from automake)
>> preferences, or better suggestions :-)
>>
>> I'll need to make both these changes simultaneously as otherwise "make
>> kvm-update" on VMs no xmlto will break.
>>
>
> This is tricky, as we need a target that builds only "programs" but
> cannot be called "programs". I guess "make programs-only". Ideally,
> "make install" would figure out if we had ran "make programs" or
> "make programs-only" but I guess that's not the easiest. So I'm ok
> with "make install-programs".
>
>
What ever happens I think the "programs" should be removed things like that
help message (replaced by "all').

I'm struggling to come up with a good way to rationalize "programs-only" vs
"manpages"; or why "manpages-only" needs to be so long.

Perhaps we're looking at this wrong.  The motivation for these targets, I
believe, is testing and cross builds:

- the intent is to speed up the build side by avoiding man pages

- they don't require xmlto

- they will typically be invoked by internal build scripts (swan-build,
swan-install) (make check UPDATEONLY=1), and not us

- for cross-builds, it also needs to install config files, making
"programs-only" extra weird

so perhaps we should just get away from "programs" entirely and specify
something else that better reflects the intended result:

  make min install-min
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