>>>>> 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

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