On Thu, Aug 01 2013, Diogo F. S. Ramos wrote: > This might be a little off topic, but I couldn't figure out why this is > happening in geiser. > > When following the instructions to build geiser inside `/build', the > info manual does not build at `/build/doc', but at `/doc'. Does anyone > know why?
This is standard autotools behaviour. AFAICT, it happens for all automake-based projects that use its standard macros for building info documents. I think the rationale had to do with being able to distribute the .info file to users that don't have makeinfo installed or something of the sort. Cheers, jao -- He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)
