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Re: [RFA] Use VPATH to find info files for installation.
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- Subject: Re: [RFA] Use VPATH to find info files for installation.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 03:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:46:27 -0400
> From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
> >
> >This doesn't work for me if I run it from outside the GDB source tree
> >(even after I correct the typo spotted by Jimmy Guo). I think that
> >you need to say "$(infodir)/`basename $$i`" instead of just
> >"$(infodir)/$$i", for it to work. (Do GNU standards allow to rely on
> >`basename' being present? I don't remember.)
>
> Actually, removing the /$$i should work.
Is this true for all possible values of INSTALL_DATA? I wonder why
all GNU packages actually put a file name there after the directory?
Perhaps there's a reason for that.
> however, I would be satisfied with any solution which allows "make
> install-info" to work for me again.
I'd like to hear from Stan and Andrew first.