The validate target in the website sources Makefile is broken

[Adrian Aichner]

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

>>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>     APA> Stephen, can you please take the time to specify what you
>     APA> mean by "broken" and what by "do the right thing"?
>
>     APA> - What happened.
>
> Files (mostly Releases/x.y.x.html) that didn't need validation got
> validted, files that did need validation (index.html,
> Releases/index.html, Releases/21.5.27.html) did not get validated.
>
> This has been going on for years, I've reported it several times,
> there is no rhyme or reason that I can determine to which files get
> validated, even after removing all the .htmls.
>
>     APA> - What you thought should have happened.
>
> The files that were updated by make all (see above) should get
> validated.
>
>     APA> - Precisely what you were doing at the time.
>
> Running "make validate" after running "make all" after editing the
> .content files corresponding to the files I expected to get updated.

Thanks, Stephen, I'll take a look.

This is exactly the info I wanted.

I thought I had fixed a few issues with the xemacsweb/Makefile you had
reported over time.

More later,

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