On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: > > Stefano> On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I > Stefano> couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence > Stefano> the location of the generated info files -- and it turned out > Stefano> it didn't! Despite what was documented in the manual, the > Stefano> 'cygnus' option did *not* cause the generated '.info' files to > Stefano> be placed in the builddir (see attached test case). > > It certainly does for me: > Yes, but (at least for the binutils case) that's only because you already have an hack *unrelated to the cygnus option* to make it work; i.e., in 'binutils/doc/Makefile.am', I read:
# Automake 1.9 will only build info files in the objdir if they are # mentioned in DISTCLEANFILES. It doesn't have to be unconditional, # though, so we use a bogus condition. if GENINSRC_NEVER DISTCLEANFILES = binutils.info endif > barimba. pwd > /home/tromey/gnu/baseline-gdb/build/binutils > barimba. grep '^srcdir = ' Makefile > srcdir = ../../src/binutils > barimba. find . -name 'binutils.info' > ./doc/binutils.info > barimba. find ../../src/binutils -name 'binutils.info' > barimba. > > How did you test it? > With the testcase attached to my mail (warning: it requires the Automake testsuite infrastructure to work). I can transform it in an independent test script if you are really interested. > If you built from a distribution tar, then it is expected that the info > file would be in srcdir. > I didn't use the binutils distribution to test my claim, but the minimal test case I had created on purpose, and attached in the previous mail. Regards, Stefano
