Building & installing glibc2 from read-only sources.

[Ulrich Drepper]

QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su> writes:

> 	LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C makeinfo libc.texinfo
> 	/tmp/Glibc2/glibc-2.0.111/manual/libc.info: Permission denied
> 	Making info file `libc.info' from `libc.texinfo'.
[...]> 	make[2]: *** [libc.info] Error 2
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	``chmod -R a-w glibc-2.0.111/'' i.e. make the source tree readonly
>         and try to build and install the package out of the source tree.
> >Fix:
> 	Fix this ``makeinfo libc.texinfo'' to work out of the source tree
> 	in a build directory. Would `--output' option to `makeinfo' help?

No.  The way it is implemented is how it is intended to be.

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