After a long time of trial and errors (a.k.a. procrastination), I finally finished my “make phd” script for my thesis. The script uses bibtex (rerunning Latex as many times as needed) and can use either Latex or PDFLatex (if you want to use hyperref and nice PDF stuff) and if necessary converts all your images to PDFs.

You can use it like this:

make all                 <- build the document using latex, dvips, epstopdf
make clean             <- clean up (remove all intermediate (and final), including converted eps images (in using pdflatex)
PDF=true make all    <- builds the document using PDFLatex

Here’s the main makefile:

Makefile for Tadek's thesis

This file builds a paper - PDF file and if (PDF is defined) a PDF with hyperlinks

#

Written (c)2005 by Tadeusz Pietraszek (pie@zurich.ibm.com)

$Id: Makefile 597 2006-01-12 15:43:59Z pie $

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Egrep trick from: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/Latex/

MakefileForTeX/Latex08.000.html

TEXFILES=thesis.tex

TEXFILES=$(wildcard *.tex)

TARGETS=$(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(TEXFILES))

RERUN = "(There were undefined references|Rerun to get (cross-references|the bars) right)"
RERUNBIB = "No file..bbl|Citation.undefined"

phd: all

all: all-recursive $(TARGETS)

clean: clean-recursive
  rm -f *.aux *.log *.bbl *.blg *.brf *.cb *.ind *.idx *.ilg  \
        *.inx *.ps *.dvi *.pdf *.toc *.out *.lot *~ *.backup

all-recursive:
  for dir in $(wildcard *); do if [ -d $$dir ] && [ -f $$dir/Makefile ]; then cd $$dir; $(MAKE) all; cd ..; fi; done

clean-recursive:
  for dir in $(wildcard *); do if [ -d $$dir ] && [ -f $$dir/Makefile ]; then cd $$dir; $(MAKE) clean; cd ..; fi; done

ifndef PDF

building the document using .dvi, .ps, -> .pdf

%.dvi: %.tex
  echo $(SHFILES)
  latex $<
  egrep -c $(RERUNBIB) $.log && (bibtex $;latex $<); true
  egrep $(RERUN) $.log && (latex $<) ; true
  egrep $(RERUN) $.log && (latex $<) ; true

%.ps: %.dvi
  dvips -Ppdf -ta4 -G0 $<

%.pdf: %.ps
  ps2pdf $<

else

this is making the same file using pdfelatex

%.pdf: %.tex
  pdfelatex $<
  egrep -c $(RERUNBIB) $.log && (bibtex $;pdfelatex $<); true
  egrep $(RERUN) $.log && (pdfelatex $<) ; true
  egrep $(RERUN) $.log && (pdfelatex $<) ; true

endif

My pictures are built using the following Makefile (in a subdirectory of the main paper):

Makefile for Tadek's thesis - pictures!

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Supports two targets: all and clean - and calls other makefiles recursively

If PDF is defined, converts EPS into PDFs

#

$Id:$

#

If you want to add your custom grpahic file .foo you need to

#

FOOFILES=#(wildcard *.foo)

EPSFILES=... $(patsubst %.foo,%.eps,$(FOOFILES))

#

%.eps: %.foo:

foo2eps -o $*.eps $<

source files

DIAFILES=$(wildcard *.dia)
INKSCAPEFILES=$(wildcard *.svg)

target files (only those that we are building, and will be deleted)

EPSFILES=$(patsubst %.dia,%.eps,$(DIAFILES)) $(patsubst %.svg,%.eps,$(INKSCAPEFILES))

ifdef PDF

target files (if we're building PDFs)

PDFFILES=$(patsubst %.eps,%.pdf,$(EPSFILES) $(wildcard *.eps))
else
PDFFILES=
endif

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