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ransford / pdflatex-makefile

Simple Makefile for pdflatex-produced documents
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Actually maybe do remove those *.aux files? #36

Closed sampsyo closed 7 years ago

sampsyo commented 7 years ago

Hi, Ben! I feel pretty silly filing this, but the change in 671d7acd46ab0c693bcd8f324c2ee2e2c5efec04 had an unintended consequence, at least for me: it now means that there's no "steady state" where make does nothing. Typing make now always rebuilds the paper.

Here's what's going on: the %.bbl rule depends on %.aux, which can be produced either by the -draftmode command or the main $(PDFTARGETS) rule. Before that change, the PDF rule would produce the .aux file and then immediately delete it, so the BibTeX rule wouldn't need to run again. Now, the BibTeX rule uses the .aux file to produce the .bbl, then the PDF rule uses the .bbl to produce an .aux that's now newer than the .bbl, and there you have it.

Would it be too ridiculous to make that .INTERMEDIATE declaration somehow optional to satisfy #24?

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ransford commented 7 years ago

The right answer is probably to write a caching webserver in PostScript to act as an up-to-dateness oracle.

I'll take a stab at this!

ransford commented 7 years ago

.aux files, back and forth, forever

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sampsyo commented 7 years ago

))<>((

Thank you, dude!