This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: as.info built in the source directory?
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
> > They don't need to be built into the srcdir in order for them to be
> > included in the source distribution. The source tree and the
> > distribution are distinct.
>
> I don't think the FSF cares how we get the files into a source
> distribution, as long as they're there. A consistent workable
> solution would be nice ;-)
It seems like this is something that Automake should be helping us
with. Here's an idea: have info files built in the source tree, but
included in a distribution. This would mean that "dist" depends on
some degree of "all" (all-info?). I don't know if that's a good idea
or not.
Ben