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 19:44:24
Message-ID: 1254858264.15541.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > By Peter's recent decree that tarballs are supposed to be built in
> > non-vpath-builds only, I am not really sure what should actually happen
> > here, both on build and on the various clean targets.
>
> I think that that means the Makefile can just assume that *every* built
> file is built in the current directory, and $(srcdir) should only be
> applied to non-derived files.

More or less, except when you are installing, you need to look in both
places for files to install (and preferably avoid installing both, I
think).

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