| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Dmtiriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build. |
| Date: | 2010-08-05 20:57:54 |
| Message-ID: | 29769.1281041874@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I think I can explain this behavior. When building outside the source
> tree, in looks in the build tree and then in the source tree for
> documentation to install. This is done by looking for a 'html'
> directory. When you already have an 'html' directory in the source tree
> before you run configure, an 'html' directory is also created in the
> build tree, because the build tree is created by making an empty copy of
> every directory in the source tree. So then it thinks the documentation
> is present in the build tree and installs that, but the directory is
> empty, so nothing is installed.
Hm, but prep_buildtree doesn't create an html_stamp file in the build
tree, so this explanation doesn't seem to hold water completely. Why
didn't it try to build new docs in the build tree?
regards, tom lane
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