From: Lady <redacted>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:02:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Touch important files before making with xsltproc
X-Git-Tag: 0.7.4~4
X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff_plain/9da40b115e830eba2bd4c27e5957a4b387d86d24?hp=beb39322e5c5b6885ecf64b5dfebb27628801c87

Touch important files before making with xsltproc

When there is nothing to output, `xsltproc` does not create files.
However, Make will find itself in an endless restart loop if these
files are never created.
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diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index ab4bfb0..cc2b123 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -584,6 +584,7 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/catalog : $(call diffprereqs,sources,$(sort $(sourcefiles) $(sourcei
 # Build a list of dependencies for each parsed file.
 $(BUILDDIR)/dependencies : $(BUILDDIR)/catalog $(call parsed,$(plaintextfiles) $(xmlfiles)) $(THISDIR)/lib/catalog2dependencies.xslt
 	@$(ECHO) "Identifying dependencies…"
+	$(silent)$(TOUCH) $(call quote,$@)
 	$(silent)$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --novalid -o $(call quote,$@) $(call quote,$(THISDIR)/lib/catalog2dependencies.xslt) $(call quote,$<)
 
 # Generate a catalog of destinations for files.
@@ -592,6 +593,7 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/dependencies : $(BUILDDIR)/catalog $(call parsed,$(plaintextfiles) $
 # It does not require knowing the dependencies.
 $(BUILDDIR)/destinations : $(BUILDDIR)/catalog $(call parsed,$(filter-out $(assetfiles),$(sourcefiles))) $(THISDIR)/lib/catalog2destinations.xslt
 	@$(ECHO) "Identifying output destinations…"
+	$(silent)$(TOUCH) $(call quote,$@)
 	$(silent)$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --novalid -o $(call quote,$@) $(call quote,$(THISDIR)/lib/catalog2destinations.xslt) $(call quote,$<)
 
 # Generate the main transform.