Re: make dist does not work in VPATH

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make dist does not work in VPATH
Date: 2008-08-20 14:34:20
Message-ID: 20080820143420.GG4169@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Is it sensible for make dist to work in a VPATH? Seems like the entire
> point of that operation is to modify the source tree.

Actually the point AFAICS is to generate a tarball. Why wouldn't it
work in a VPATH build?

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