merged from donkult

[apt.git] / buildlib / copy.mak

diff --git a/buildlib/copy.mak b/buildlib/copy.mak
index 892b74bc4e5d003fe4905470b7e2c6cbfaa68257..e8fe43deb5443faf780747649e2f5cc9c3d54dcc 100644 (file)
--- a/buildlib/copy.mak
+++ b/buildlib/copy.mak
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # -*- make -*-
 
-# This installs arbitary files into a directory
+# This installs arbitrary files into a directory
 
 # Input
 # $(SOURCE) - The documents to use
 # $(TO)     - The directory to put them in
+# $(TARGET) - The global target to add the local target as a dependency
+#             to.
 # All output is writtin to files in the build/$(TO) directory
 
 # See defaults.mak for information about LOCAL
@@ -14,12 +16,12 @@ LOCAL := copy-$(firstword $(SOURCE))
 $(LOCAL)-LIST := $(addprefix $(TO)/,$(SOURCE))
 
 # Install generation hooks
-doc: $($(LOCAL)-LIST)
+$(TARGET): $($(LOCAL)-LIST)
 veryclean: veryclean/$(LOCAL)
 
 MKDIRS += $(dir $($(LOCAL)-LIST))
 
-$($(LOCAL)-LIST) : $(TO)/% : %
+$($(LOCAL)-LIST) : $(TO)/% : % dirs
        echo Installing $< to $(@D)
        cp $< $(@D)