RFA: Build doc files in build directory not source directory

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Fri May 31 03:56:00 GMT 2002


Hi Florian,

> >   The patch below changes gcc's makefile so that info files and man
> >   pages are created in the build tree and not the source tree.  This
> >   allows these files to be created even if the sources are mounted on
> >   a read-only partition.  It also updates the install-info target to
> >   handle an arbitrary set of info files, making it simpler to add new
> >   files in the future.
> 
> Doesn't this break the generation of the web docs?

Err I don't know.  How are the web docs built from the sources ?

Cheers
        Nick



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