Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build.
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Msg-id 1285341251-sup-5163@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: BUG #5595: Documentation is not installs from VPATH build.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of jue ago 26 17:01:14 -0400 2010:
> Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of jue ago 26 16:46:42 -0400 2010:
> > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue ago 26 16:38:07 -0400 2010:

> > > Those wildcards look a bit scary, although I suppose only a really
> > > perverse person would put their PG source tree underneath a path
> > > containing that.
> >
> > Hmm, perhaps it can be
> >     -path "$sourcetree/doc/src/sgml/*"
>
> Yeah, this works for me (i.e. it creates doc/src/sgml but not anything
> under it), though I didn't test whether this fixes the original problem.

I confirmed last night that it fixes the problem (install docs on a
VPATH built from a tarball), so I committed it and removed the rmdirs.

Served nicely as a test case for my git pull/push workflow.

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