Intrusive Makefile for d-programming-language.org

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-15 14:28, mta`chrono wrote:
>> If I had a web dir in my home directory (not exactly uncommon), it would
>> have been deleted without warning. Luckily, I didn't. I now have it
>> cloned into a separate dir where it can do no harm.
>>
>> Is it normal for Makefiles to be so intrusive? IMO, Makefiles shouldn't
>> be deleting anything outside their own directory.
>
> You're right! Makefiles shouldn't do anything outside their own
> directory, but building the website is a little bit complicated as
> d-progamming-language.org relys on the sources of druntime and phobos to
> generate the documentation.
>
> I think it can not be avoided in this particular case. The Makefile has
> to do some work in the parent folder.
>
> BUT, it's probably best to add a "README.md" and give a short
> explanation of how to build the website.
>
> ----
> mkdir -p /tmp/workdir
> cd /tmp/workdir
> git checkout ...
> git checkout ...
> git checkout ...
> make -f ....
> move BLA to your /var/www/public_html folder
> rm -rf /var/workdir
> ----

Or create a super repository and use git submodules to include all 
repositories currently at: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg