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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:12:03PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >
> I believe that, if you distribute a file, creating in $(srcdir) might
> actually be the correct choice ...  For more background, see:
> 
>   <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10852>

I didn't really found a clear explanation of that in this url, but it
may be because I am dense ;).

However for the specific case of the man pages generated in Texinfo, I
think that not doing them in srcdir is better.

> > It may not be wrong in every cases, for instance it seems to me that it 
> > makes sense to rebuild in $(srcdir) the Makefile fragments that are 
> > included by automake.
> > 
> In that case, it is the *only* sane approach actually.  Automake (and
> the other autotools, like aclocal and autoconf) are re-run by the
> automatic remake rules present in automake-generated Makefiles only
> from the srcdir (since they can only work from there), so any included
> file that is in the builddir would not be found.

Ok, that's also what I figured out.  Thanks.

-- 
Pat