Re: [Bug-readline] bug with make distclean

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/18/09 11:15 AM, THOUMIN Damien wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m with the latest version of readline (readline-6.0).
> 
> I invoked building with :
> 
> cd /full/path/to/readline
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$(shell _pwd_)
> 
> make
> 
>  
> 
> All work  perfectly.
> 
> Next, to clean my work, I do “make distclean” and it remove some files
> in doc/ because of the rule:
> 
> maybe-clean:
> 
>       -if test "X$(topdir)" != "X$(BUILD_DIR)"; then \
> 
>             $(RM) $(*DIST_DOCS*); \
> 
>       fi
> 
>  
> 
> In doc/Makefile, I have :
> 
> topdir = ..
> 
> BUILD_DIR = /full/path/to/readline/
> 
>  
> 
> We can see that, the string is really different but point to the same
> directory!
> 
> It is possible to fix this problem with some options in the ‘configure’?

The idea is that, since the documentation is shipped in the readline
tarball, we should only remove it if we're building in a directory other
than the source directory.  I suppose I could add a check for
"topdir == .." to catch building in the source directory.

Chet
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