Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Dmtiriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build.
Date: 2010-08-05 20:57:54
Message-ID: 29769.1281041874@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I think I can explain this behavior. When building outside the source
> tree, in looks in the build tree and then in the source tree for
> documentation to install. This is done by looking for a 'html'
> directory. When you already have an 'html' directory in the source tree
> before you run configure, an 'html' directory is also created in the
> build tree, because the build tree is created by making an empty copy of
> every directory in the source tree. So then it thinks the documentation
> is present in the build tree and installs that, but the directory is
> empty, so nothing is installed.

Hm, but prep_buildtree doesn't create an html_stamp file in the build
tree, so this explanation doesn't seem to hold water completely. Why
didn't it try to build new docs in the build tree?

regards, tom lane

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