On Mon, Jun 20, 2005, Jörgen Grahn wrote: > Hi, > > (Originally I intended to whine about how the texinfo manual always seems to > require a more and more bleeding-edge texinfo, so that I never have a > suitable one preinstalled on my Debian system ... but I decided to be > positive instead.) > > When I compile stuff, especially stuff pulled from CVS, I try to build in a > separate directory. "cd build && ../the_package/configure && make" and so on. > This sometimes works with groff, and sometimes it doesn't. > > Right now (latest CVS) the only thing which seems to prevent that is the > contrib/mom install step. Here is a patch which hopefully fixes that. > > Please review it carefully if you intend to apply it. I'm not very good at > advanced, recursive make, and I'm not sure you want things like > $(notdir ...) in there; I assume that's a Gnu make-specific feature. > > BR, > Jörgen > > PS. I deliberately did not send this to mom's author, since it affects > groff's install process in general, not mom's features.
Good thing, too, since this is outside my proper field of expertise. :) -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
