Re: [Groff] Minor mom Makefile patch

[Peter Schaffter]

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. :)

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Peter Schaffter
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