Re: doc/src/sgml/Makefile versus VPATH

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: doc/src/sgml/Makefile versus VPATH
Date: 2009-10-06 20:00:50
Message-ID: 1254859250.15541.16.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> So isn't this still pretty broken? I notice that the clean and
> distclean targets still use addprefix on a lot of temporary/intermediate
> files that I would think get made in the build directory, not the source
> directory.

Yeah, those rules have "evolved" a bit. Basically, everything should be
in clean except the bits that go into the tarball, namely the final man
and html builds. I have committed some fixes. (It almost looks like
8.4 again now.)

> The references to man files in srcdir in
> nonsql_manpage_files and adjacent macros seem a tad suspicious as well.

Indeed. This only affects if you build your own man pages in a vpath
build, so it's not critical. I'll look at it later.

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