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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:09:13AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> > My thought was just that it seems like it would be one relatively simple
> > command to check that no file in the purported distribution is newer
> > than anything in the source tree.  Which should be the result after a
> > make distcheck, I think.
> 
> That would be for some files only, as some distributed files are
> generated, right?  Like files in man, some files in tp/...  But in most

Rereading my mail this is very unclear, what I wanted to say is 
 'Files that should not be regenerated are files in man/, some files
  in tp/'.

> cases just checking that they are in srcdir and not in builddir should
> be enough to check that they were not regenerated.  If thay are
> regenerated in srcdir, there should be some error during make distcheck
> because the files in srcdir are read-only so this case should be already
> covered.
> 
> -- 
> PAt
>