From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:19:09 +0000 Subject: Re: more fixes for out of tree builds Message-Id: <20091109141909.GA13453@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: References: <20091109034609.GA28618@bongo.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <20091109034609.GA28618@bongo.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Nov 09, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 04:46, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > These are needed to support out of tree builds, > Why isn't "make distcheck" failing then? Did you try it with a read only source tree? > Hmm, that looks a bit too weird, doesn't it? > > +srcdir := $(builddir) Maybe, but without something like that the building process will create files in the source tree. Ubuntu uses a similar workaround, this is a known gtk-doc bug. -- ciao, Marco