Fix build from readonly srcdir - makeinfo
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Fri Apr 29 14:08:00 GMT 2005
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Automake 1.9 uses new crufty rules for generating info files which create a
> directory in $(srcdir), and is explicit that info files must be generated
> into $(srcdir). This makes it very obvious that they fail when the
> srcdir is readonly.
>
> This patch updates the dependencies for both bfd's and gas's info
> documentation so that it does not need to be rebuilt from a distribution
> tarball. I found various ways to hack around the readonly-srcdir problem,
> but this is cleaner, and avoids the problem. Binutils and ld will have
> similar issues when they are upgraded to 1.9.x; I'll come back and look at
> them later.
>
> Any objections to this patch? The quirky bit is that we now ship
> asconfig.texi. Considering overriding it didn't handle dependencies
> properly anyway, I'm not bothered by this.
No one objected so I've checked this in.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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