[PATCH input-synaptics 3/5] man: there is no need to create the "man" source directory

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:41 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:

> Il giorno lun, 13/06/2011 alle 19.43 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto:
> > 
> > This directory is created when the source code is extracted from git.
> > There are 175 other man pages directories in X.Org and none are
> > created from the makefile.
> 
> You're assuming always running a build in-place. That might not be the
> case. Indeed Gentoo has been building Xorg modules out-of-tree for quite
> a while now.
> 
> In a out-of-tree build, the directories are to be created: with a
> recursive Makefile, ./config.status would create them to convert
> Makefile.in to Makefile; on a non-recursive Makefile, it is the task of
> the target rule to create the directory. Interestingly enough, when
> using subdir-objects, the Makefile rules already include that for all
> the other targets.


Right. That was my mistake, as Dan found out as well. I should not have
separated this code from the move back to the man dir. I had not
realized it was required to create those directories. It should have
been in one patch.


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