[debbugs-tracker] bug#34703: closed ('install-license-files' assumes the current working directory is unchanged)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 'install-license-files' assumes the current working directory is unchanged Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 14:26:39 -0500 User-agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01)

'install-license-files' in gnu-build-system looks for license files
in ".".

However, some package build procedures change the current working
directory from the root of the unpacked source code, and
'install-license-files' then fails to find the license file.

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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > The ‘install-license-files’ phase doesn’t install anything when doing
> > builds with #:out-of-source? #t, as is the case for ‘glibc’ and for
> > anything using ‘cmake-build-system’.
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> > That’s because it looks for license files in “.”, which is incorrect in
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> Fixed in 278409e7e9ad63b80afa0a40c220dedd78c0aa54, on ‘core-updates’.
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