make-man-index.py doesn't care about .html files, only .xml files, so
the source list was wrong. Also, $(XML_FILES) are specified without
prefix, so compilation in sepearate build-dir was broken:
GEN man/index.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../make-man-index.py", line 24, in <module>
t = parse(p)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1183, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 647, in parse
source = open(source, "rb")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'man/systemd.xml'
CLEANFILES += \
man/index.html
-$(builddir)/man/index.html: $(XML_FILES:.xml=.html) $(top_srcdir)/make-man-index.py
+man/index.html: make-man-index.py $(XML_FILES)
$(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) $(dir $@) && \
- $(PYTHON) $(top_srcdir)/make-man-index.py $(XML_FILES) > $@
+ $(PYTHON) $^ > $@
EXTRA_DIST += \
man/index.html