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Re: [PATCH] Ensure that docobjdir exists
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Kelley Cook <kcook34 at ford dot com>
- Cc: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 29 Jul 2003 16:07:30 -0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that docobjdir exists
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20030726232433.GA10960@disaster.jaj.com><3F255357.1080709@ford.com>
On Jul 28, 2003, Kelley Cook <kcook34@ford.com> wrote:
>> However, it assumes that the target directory already exists. If you change
>> docobjdir = $(srcdir)/doc
>> to, say
>> docobjdir = $(objdir)/doc
> Q: Why isn't this the default?
Some people like it one way, some like it the other. E.g., we need to
ship info files in the source tree in release tarballs, so that users
don't need texinfo in order to get info files. We should have a
configure option that enables builds from read-only srcdir. Patches
that get us closer to this goal are welcome.
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