Re: $(srcdir) in man pages and other targets

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:45:21PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     the point here is to also check that those files are not rebuilt, an
>     information that is likely to be hard to find in a make distcheck.
> 
> Nevertheless, I believe automake checks it, via distclean.
> >From (automake)Checking the Distribution --

Automake sort of checks it but not exactly.  For instance, if you have 
the tool and it is rebuilt, the I don't think that automake can check
that it is not rebuilt.

>   ... it's usually an error if your Makefiles cause some distributed
>   files to be rebuilt when the user build the package.  (Think about
>   the user missing the tool ...
> 
> I admit I didn't actually test if what automake does suffices for what
> we're doing.  If more is needed, there is distcheck-hook to run
> arbitrary commands ...

I'd prefer not to go there...

Another point is that you may trick automake too, which I believe is
what happens with adding $(srcdir) to the reules (but i am not usre on
that).

Anyway, all that does not really matter, as I should test explictly
and through make distcheck.

-- 
Pat