Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: >> (I think avoiding info documentation being built in the source directory, >> so that builds could use a non-writable source directory, may have been >> one part). >> > There is probably some hack to obtain this effect (it's tested in the > testsuite > somewhere), but my opinion is that if you distribute the generated info files > you should also have them generated in the source directory, to avoid nasty > surprises (for a similar issue, involving yacc and lex, see automake > bug#10852, > in particular messages <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10852#14> > and <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10852#15>).
It's important that it be possible to build with the sources on a read-only disk. It's useful to be able to include .info files in releases so that people can build the releases without having to have makeinfo installed. Ian
