[Omake] Set of changed files

Luis O'Shea loshea at gmail.com
Thu May 8 11:51:20 PDT 2008


> Yes, LaTeX fixpoints require some additional mechanisms and we still 
> have not figured out what the best way would be. But I think that we 
> have two separate issues here:
> 
> - The "fixpoint" dependency "a.dvi ::: b.aux" - see 
> http://bugzilla.metaprl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86 on that one.

Agreed.  How complicated is it to implement your suggestions (listed in 
bug 86)?   If it is something you expect to implement in the near future 
then I can only say "great"!

Otherwise, allowing a rule to query the set of changed dependencies 
would seem an adequate short-term fix.  Of course, I am assuming that
   1) implementing a $(changed ...) function is straightforward
   2) a reasonable latex builder can be written in terms of it
   3) such a function is not too offensive to the authors of omake -- 
after all, it might encourage unreproducible builds

Thanks,

Luis


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