>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> This will not work. dodoc operates only on files, not on directories.
> Tiziano mentioned that later in the email. Perhaps you missed it? I didn't miss it. Read his message again: >>> The only problem I see here is that either <OLDLOCATION> or >>> ${T}/doc contains subdirs. Whereas the following: emake DESTDIR="${D}" docdir="${T}/doc" dodoc "${T}/doc" will not work, even if ${T}/doc contains only files. >> Besides, what do we win by this unnecessary copying? > What copying? Files are first installed under ${T} and then copied to ${D}. Ulrich