Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> I think I can explain this behavior.  When building outside the source
> tree, in looks in the build tree and then in the source tree for
> documentation to install.  This is done by looking for a 'html'
> directory.  When you already have an 'html' directory in the source tree
> before you run configure, an 'html' directory is also created in the
> build tree, because the build tree is created by making an empty copy of
> every directory in the source tree.  So then it thinks the documentation
> is present in the build tree and installs that, but the directory is
> empty, so nothing is installed.

Hm, but prep_buildtree doesn't create an html_stamp file in the build
tree, so this explanation doesn't seem to hold water completely.  Why
didn't it try to build new docs in the build tree?

                        regards, tom lane

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