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Re: Bug in coreutils/man/Makefile.am
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Bug in coreutils/man/Makefile.am |
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Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:43:50 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Daniel Richard G." <address@hidden> writes:
> I made do with gmake, but it's typical for an Autotools-based source tree
> to support out-of-tree builds without needing GNU Make.
It often works with simpler builds, yes. But I've had a lot of trouble
with more-complicated ones. It's not worth investigating these problems,
since people can just use GNU make or use in-tree builds.
> Is it really accurate to refer to e.g. basename.c as "../src/basename.c"?
Yes, I think so, for GNU make VPATH anyway.