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Re: texinfo-7.0.1 on OpenSolaris
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Patrice Dumas |
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Re: texinfo-7.0.1 on OpenSolaris |
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Wed, 4 Jan 2023 13:49:33 +0100 |
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 12:44:45PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 01:31:22PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:28:03PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 03:46:56PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > > One way of fixing this might be to put the generated file in a
> > > > subdirectory so that make can't see it. Or it might not be worth
> > > > bothering as this version of make and/or operating system isn't
> > > > very important. Another alternative is to remove the Latin-1 filename
> > > > tests completely for all systems.
> > >
> > > A patch for the first way is at the bottom of this mail. It only
> > > involves changing two files. Any comments?
> >
> > Looks good to me and probably saner not to generate files directly in
> > the source directory.
>
> The files were being generated in the build directory, not the source
> directory, which would be different directories in the case of an
> out-of-source build. This is checked by "make distcheck" which
> makes the source directory read-only.
Indeed, I misused the name, but it is still cleaner if it is not
generated directly in the build directory. Also because if not doing an
out-of-source build it will also be the source directory.
--
Pat
Re: texinfo-7.0.1 on OpenSolaris, Bruno Haible, 2023/01/02