The validate target in the website sources Makefile is broken

[Adrian Aichner]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> I'm not sure what's going on, but my guess is that the `find' command
> that generates "HTML_FILES" is broken.  Sorry, I don't have time to

Stephen, can you please take the time to specify what you mean by
"broken" and what by "do the right thing"?

- What happened.
- What you thought should have happened.
- Precisely what you were doing at the time.

Thanks!

> get it right.  "GENERATED_HTML_FILES" seems to be OK in light testing,
> though, so substituting
>
> validate-time-stamp: $(GENERATED_HTML_FILES)
>
> for
>
> validate-time-stamp: $(HTML_FILES)
>
> seems to do the right thing, unless you have edited a non-generated
> HTML file directly.  Probably only Adrian has need to do that, though.

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