Re: advice for pre-generating documentation

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Andreas,

On 2/11/10 12:06 PM, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> also I wonder:
> what about builddir vs. sourcedir? how do you handle that?
>
> if people have a tar.gz with pre-build documentation, it
> is in sourcedir. if people checkout svn and build in a seperate
> build root, the documentation is created in builddir.
>
> does automake handle that automaticaly?
>    
IMHO it seems confusing and error prone to treat those two cases 
separately. To me, a file is either located in srcdir or builddir, 
independent on whether I build from an svn checkout or from a tarball. 
For instance, the `Makefile.in' is always located in srcdir, also when 
it is created (built) in an svn checkout. You said before that you 
wanted to treat documentation as `Makefile.in' and then I would have the 
docs in srcdir.

Thanks,
Peter