Part 1 of patches for making SUN-make work in separate build-dir: texinfo dependencies

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 21, 1998, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:

> I agree; automake generates somewhat broken (at least
> nonportable) dependencies if they use "../"-relative paths when
> it "knows" that builddir could be != srcdir.

The dependencies it generates are supposed to work on any
POSIX-compliant `make', for builddir != srcdir, and on any make, for
builddir == srcdir.

> But as long as Makefile.in is regenerated by automake as
> invoked with --include-deps, the same broken dependencies will
> be kept, so the patch is needed anyway.

Seems fair enough.  But whoever imports a new version of texinfo into
the egcs tree will have to take care of keeping your modifications.

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