Re: Template Makefile.ams and srcdir != builddir

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On 22 Jun 2001 00:11:09 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Solution: make all the stampfiles in builddir, I guess. Is there a
> > reason that certain stampfiles are made in srcdir, or is it only a side
> > effect of the "cd $(srcdir)" at the beginning of the rules?
> 
> gtk.args isn't a stamp file. It is a generated file that just happens
> to be empty for this module.
> 

Not gtk.args -- html.stamp eg. In builddir I have:

	html-build.stamp
	scan-build.stamp
	sgml-build.stamp
	tmpl-build.stamp

and in srcdir I have:

	html.stamp
	sgml.stamp
	tmpl.stamp

I think if these latter stamps are put in builddir (with a mv I guess)
it will work. I'll try to test this.

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