Re: [Groff] Typesetting with groff from Makefiles

[Jörgen Grahn]

On Mon Jun 20 11:40:37 2005, address@hidden wrote:
> >   foo.ps: foo.ms
> >        groff -ms foo.ms > foo.ps

> >   foo.ps: foo.ms
> >        groff -ms foo.ms > foo.ps || $(RM) foo.ps

> What about...
> 
>   foo.ps: foo.ms
>        groff -ms foo.ms > foo.ps || ($(RM) foo.ps; exit 1)

Yes, that seems to cover all cases, but it's a bit too heavy on the shell
syntax, IMHO. On the other hand, my first "... || $(RM)" example isn't
really more portable.

Sometimes I wish for an '-o file' option to groff and friends, with
semantics like those of gcc and other compilers. That would make Makefiles
easier to read and more portable -- as long as the user's troff is groff, of
course.

/Jörgen

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