Before running LaTeX2HTML, remove all the HTML files from the output
directory. This avoids acretion of HTML from previous runs which may
have a new name; this would have avoided a lot of the packaging problems
related to changing labels from the old distutils documentation.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index de59602..7edf5ff 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@
# build the command line and run LaTeX2HTML:
if not os.path.isdir(builddir):
os.mkdir(builddir)
+ else:
+ for fname in glob.glob(os.path.join(builddir, "*.html")):
+ os.unlink(fname)
args = [LATEX2HTML_BINARY,
"-init_file", self.l2h_aux_init_file,
"-dir", builddir,