Cannot compile man pages outside source directory

[Alexandre Julliard]

William Poetra Yoga H <williampoetra at yahoo.com> writes:

> Then, because documentation/man3w should be in the build directory, we have to
> modify TOPSRCDIR and TOPOBJDIR for the makefiles. I modified them to:
> 
> TOPSRCDIR = @abs_top_srcdir@
> TOPOBJDIR = @abs_top_builddir@
> 
> Is this correct? I'm testing it (my machine's slow) to see if it breaks
> anything.

No, you don't want to put absolute paths in makefiles. c2man should be
fixed to load files from the source directory if they are not found in
the build directory.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org