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Re: Fix build from readonly srcdir - makeinfo
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:04:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: Fix build from readonly srcdir - makeinfo
- References: <20050426220840.GA13153@nevyn.them.org>
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Automake 1.9 uses new crufty rules for generating info files which create a
> directory in $(srcdir), and is explicit that info files must be generated
> into $(srcdir). This makes it very obvious that they fail when the
> srcdir is readonly.
>
> This patch updates the dependencies for both bfd's and gas's info
> documentation so that it does not need to be rebuilt from a distribution
> tarball. I found various ways to hack around the readonly-srcdir problem,
> but this is cleaner, and avoids the problem. Binutils and ld will have
> similar issues when they are upgraded to 1.9.x; I'll come back and look at
> them later.
>
> Any objections to this patch? The quirky bit is that we now ship
> asconfig.texi. Considering overriding it didn't handle dependencies
> properly anyway, I'm not bothered by this.
No one objected so I've checked this in.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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