Re: [PLUG] make and depending on globs

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 18 Jan, 2004, at 22:41, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> I have a latex document that resides in multiple files.  Let's call it
> a book.  It's complicated to build, so I have a makefile.  I would
> like it to be clear that main.tex depends on *.tex and */*.tex.
>
> I am having trouble getting make to do this.  For example, this line
> does not work:
>
>     main.dvi: main.tex *.tex */*.tex
>             latex ...
>
> nor does this:
>
>     main.dvi: main.tex $(SHELL ls *.tex */*.tex)
>             latex ...
>
> Anyone see what I'm missing?

Spaces instead of tabs maybe?

Why not just create a master document and fill it with \input {...} 
statements?

Then you only have one file to run...

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