[Omake] Re: Set of changed files

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 09.05.2008 02:27, David Kågedal wrote:

> Luis O'Shea <loshea at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I would like to implement a simple fixed point build within omake (see
>> http://lists.metaprl.org/pipermail/omake/2007-March/001505.html) to
>> aid in compiling LaTeX documents.
>>
>> Suppose you have a document a.tex and a bibliography x.bib, then a
>> typical run to produce the final DVI would look like
>>
>>   latex a
>>   bibtex a
>>   latex a
>>   latex a
>>
>> Things can get more complicated than the above, of course.
> 
> Isn't one of the complications that there isn't necessarily a fixpoint
> for latex?  I believe that you can get ping-pong effects since the
> layout uses information from the last run only.
> 
Theoretically - yes, you can have ping-pong. But practically speaking I 
do not think that this actually ever happens in any real-world documents.

Aleksey