Re: [PATCH 00/22] Patches to avoid use of make recursion in the 'src/' subdir

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 09/01/2012 10:56 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> On 09/01/2012 10:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>> I like your changes, and for now am mainly concerned with ensuring
>>> that "make distcheck" continues to work with them.
>>> If you find an actual problem or a way to eliminate the
>>> potential confusion, patches are always welcome.
>>>
>> OK.  Can you put your patch (or better, the whole series) on hold,
>> and give me a few hours to try to come up with an alternative fix?
> 
Hmpf, all my attempts either did not work or ended up being too baroque
and brittle to be worth of real consideration.  I now think your original
proposed change is better.  Maybe, as a follow-up, we might move the
distributed manpages in a subdirectory in 'man/', and copy them over
back in 'man/' when the system lacks a perl interpreter and thus cannot
run help2man on the freshly-built executables.  But as I said, that's
for a follow-up (if it is done at all).

Thanks,
  Stefano