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Re: [Geiser-users] info manual not building inside the build tree
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Jose A. Ortega Ruiz |
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Re: [Geiser-users] info manual not building inside the build tree |
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Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:55:44 +0200 |
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On Thu, Aug 01 2013, Diogo F. S. Ramos wrote:
> This might be a little off topic, but I couldn't figure out why this is
> happening in geiser.
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> When following the instructions to build geiser inside `/build', the
> info manual does not build at `/build/doc', but at `/doc'. Does anyone
> know why?
This is standard autotools behaviour. AFAICT, it happens for all
automake-based projects that use its standard macros for building info
documents. I think the rationale had to do with being able to
distribute the .info file to users that don't have makeinfo installed or
something of the sort.
Cheers,
jao
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