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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:59:28PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     What is important is to check that out of source build of a release
>    
> If I'm understanding right, that is exactly what Automake's distcheck
> checks.  A VPATH build of a (proposed) release.

Indeed.  But the point here is to also check that those files are not
rebuilt, an information that is likely to be hard to find in a make
distcheck.

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Pat