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Re: Building the .info files in build directory.
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Building the .info files in build directory. |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:11:44 +0100 |
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Simon Richter <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> [Info files being built in source dir]
>
>> FWIW, having a read only source directory is our goal.
>
> When the source dir is readonly, noone can change the texinfo files. If
> noone can change the texinfo files, there is no need to rebuild the info
> files, so it doesn't matter that they're in a readonly directory.
I don't think this is true in general, a texinfo file could @include a
file that is built during the build phase.
(For example, I generate Texinfo code documenting the library based on
comments in the source files, and some source files may be generated,
as in foo.h.in -> foo.h to add version information to a header file.
Compare http://josefsson.org/gdoc/.)