Re: $(srcdir) in man pages and other targets

[Karl Berry]

    I am currently checking portability of bootstraping the cvs on free
    platforms

In general, bootstrapping CVS is a very different question from
installing the release.  It is not a goal of mine to support
bootstrapping Texinfo CVS in an arbitrary environment.  I think that
would be a tremendous amount of pain for no discernible benefit.

BTW, last I knew, BSD make does not support VPATH builds, you have to
have GNU make.

Anyway ...

    So, is there a reason why you used $(srcdir)/ in the rule?

Good question.  I suspect I more or less didn't know what I was doing,
thinking that I had to use $(srcdir) because I wanted to distribute
those files.  Or maybe I was trying to avoid requiring help2man for
bootstrappers.  Or wrongly thinking of them as related to BUILT_SOURCES
somehow.  As you can tell, I don't really remember.  If you want to
experiment with removing the $(srcdir), feel free.  I do (think I) agree
with your argument in general.

Thanks,
k