problem with info file backup restoration

[Dave Korn]

On 30 June 2006 14:36, Jan Beulich wrote:

> The code in lib/am/texibuild.am uses a construct `echo "./$@" | sed
> 's|[^/]*$$||'` to obtain the directory of the files to be restored.
> However, this obviously doesn't work when the directory is absolute (i.e.
> when I have the sources on /usr/local/src and build in a separate output
> directory under /home). Why can't this simply be `dirname "./$@"`/ ?  

  Isn't this a hang-over from the way info files used to always be built
in-tree even when you were doing a parallel-obj-dir build, and didn't someone
do something about the in-tree info files lately that probably omitted to fix
this as an oversight?  

    cheers,
      DaveK
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