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# ⛩️📰 书社
-An X·S·L·T‐based static site generator.
+A make·file for X·M·L.
⛩️📰 书社 aims to make it easy to generate websites with
X·S·L·T and G·N·U Make.
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ It makes things easier by :—
It aims to do this with zero dependencies beyond the programs already
installed on your computer.
+(On Linux machines, you may need to install `libxml2-utils` to get the
+ commandline programs from `libxml2`.)
+
+**Note:**
+⛩️📰 书社 requires functionality present in G·N·U Make 3.81 (or later)
+ and will not work in previous versions, or other implementations of
+ Make.
+Compatibility with later versions of G·N·U Make is assumed, but not
+ tested.
## Nomenclature
@@ -99,6 +108,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
- `file`
- `find`
- `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable)
+- `ln`
- `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
- `mv`
- `od` (requires support for `-t x1`)
@@ -155,31 +165,65 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
This variable is used to find the ⛩️📰 书社 `lib/` folder, which is
expected to be in the same location.
-- **`MAGICDIR`:**
- The location of the magic files to use (default: `$(THISDIR)/magic`).
+- **`MAGIC`:**
+ A white·space‐separated list of magic files to use (default:
+ `$(THISDIR)/magic/*`).
+
+- **`EXTRAMAGIC`:**
+ The value of this variable is appended to `MAGIC` by default, to
+ enable additional magic files without overriding the existing ones.
- **`FINDRULES`:**
Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
- The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus
- and those which contain a hash, buck, percent, asterisk, colon,
- semi, eroteme, bracket, or pipe.
+ The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus,
+ those which end with a cloparen, and those which contain a hash,
+ buck, percent, asterisk, colon, semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash,
+ or pipe.
+
+- **`EXTRAFINDRULES`:**
+ The value of this variable is appended to `FINDRULES` by default, to
+ enable additional rules without overriding the existing ones.
- **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default:
`$(FINDRULES)`).
+- **`EXTRAFINDINCLUDERULES`:**
+ The value of this variable is appended to `FINDINCLUDERULES` by
+ default, to enable additional rules without overriding the existing
+ ones.
+
- **`PARSERS`:**
A white·space‐separated list of parsers to use (default:
`$(THISDIR)/parsers/*.xslt`).
+- **`EXTRAPARSERS`:**
+ The value of this variable is appended to `PARSERS` by default, to
+ enable additional parsers without overriding the existing ones.
+
- **`TRANSFORMS`:**
A white·space‐separated list of transforms to use (default:
`$(THISDIR)/transforms/*.xslt`).
+- **`EXTRATRANSFORMS`:**
+ The value of this variable is appended to `TRANSFORMS` by default, to
+ enable additional transforms without overriding the existing ones.
+
- **`XMLTYPES`:**
A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L
(default: `application/xml text/xml`).
+- **`GENERATOR`:**
+ The name of the generator program (default: `⛩️📰 书社`).
+
+- **`VERSION`:**
+ The current version of `GENERATOR` (default: derived from the current
+ git tag/branch/commit).
+
+- **`SRCREV`:**
+ The current version of the source files (default: derived from the
+ current git tag/branch/commit).
+
- **`VERBOSE`:**
If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be
printed when it runs (default: empty).
@@ -211,10 +255,13 @@ Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
**☡ For compatibility with this program, source file·names must not
contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
- (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), or control characters, and must not
- begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
+ (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), backslashes (`\`), or control
+ characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), and must not
+ end with a cloparen (`)`).**
The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
- and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
+ a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument, and
+ a trailing cloparen [activates a bug in G·N·U Make
+ 3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894).
## Parsers
@@ -384,16 +431,17 @@ The following params are made available globally in parsers and
- **`BUILDTIME`:**
The current time.
+- **`GENERATOR`:**
+ The value of the `GENERATOR` variable (if present).
+
- **`SRCREV`:**
- The tag or hash of the current commit in the working directory (if
- `GIT` is defined and `./.git` exists).
+ The value of the `SRCREV` variable (if present).
- **`SRCTIME`:**
The time at which the source file was last modified.
- **`VERSION`:**
- The tag or hash of the current commit in `THISDIR` (if `GIT` is
- defined and `$(THISDIR)/.git` exists).
+ The value of the `VERSION` variable (if present).
The following params are only available in transforms :—
@@ -462,4 +510,4 @@ Source files are licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, version 2.0.
For more information, see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
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