Re: [PATCH] man/Makefile.local: allow out-of-tree 'make install'.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/Makefile.local: allow out-of-tree 'make install'.

Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:45:14 +0300

To: Rory Yorke, Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jani Nikula

On Sun, 04 Aug 2013, Rory Yorke <rory.yorke@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see the gzipped man files end up in the source tree; I guess ideally
> they'd be in the build tree?

Yes; the main point of out-of-tree builds and installs is not to touch
the source tree. While I don't have a fix to offer to solve the problem,
I'm afraid your patch isn't the fix either.

BR,
Jani.

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