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authorAlastair Hughes <hobbitalastair@gmail.com>2016-10-27 16:48:49 +1300
committerWill Estes <westes575@gmail.com>2016-10-27 17:55:46 -0400
commit92311a56b34363d150ed6badfad3450bcfe09a2f (patch)
treefbca6574502e3fcdacb222b88f702d3fdbb9de36 /NEWS
parent2bf2ad6d686f5e2a3b6329ecedc756ddfcf71453 (diff)
Only regenerate the man page when required.
Make the flex binary an order-only prerequisite, and add back the prerequisites from before 7cfb440. This prevents rebuilding the man page whenever the flex binary is rebuilt, which causes problems if help2man is not installed and will never work when cross compiling. Fixes #108.
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@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
included in the build/installation targets of flex since it was
unused.
+*** the distributed man page is only rebuilt when the relevant source
+ files change or when the binary doesn't exist. In particular, this
+ is friendlier to cross compilation. Resolves #108
+
* version 2.6.2 released 2016-10-24
** flex internals