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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: generate Git(3pm) as dependency of the 'doc' and 'man' targets
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:52:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaeyfxdu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180215021410.14045-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>


On Thu, Feb 15 2018, SZEDER Gábor jotted:

> Since commit 20d2a30f8f (Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with
> simple make rules, 2017-12-10), the Git(3pm) man page is only
> generated as an indirect dependency of the 'install-doc' and
> 'install-man' Makefile targets.  Consequently, if someone runs 'make
> man && sudo make install-man' (or their 'doc' counterparts), then
> Git(3pm) will be generated as root, and the resulting root-owned files
> and directories will in turn cause the next user-run 'make clean' to
> fail.  This was not an issue in the past, because Git(3pm) was
> generated when 'make all' descended into 'perl/', which is usually not
> run as root.
>
> List Git(3pm) as a dependency of the 'doc' and 'man' Makefile targets,
> too, so it gets generated by targets that are usually built as
> ordinary users.
>
> While at it, add 'install-man-perl' to the list of .PHONY targets.

Thanks for the fixup of my crappy 'make' skills. I tested this before
the patch and it indeed has the problem you describe, and this fixes
it. Thanks! CC-ing Junio because I think it makes sense to pick this up
as-is.

Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-15  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-15  2:14 [PATCH] Makefile: generate Git(3pm) as dependency of the 'doc' and 'man' targets SZEDER Gábor
2018-02-15  8:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-02-15 18:05   ` Junio C Hamano

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