Re: Template Makefile.ams and srcdir != builddir

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Peter Williams <peter newton cx> writes:

> Hi everyone,
> 	It seems that the stamps in the template Makefile.am's don't work when
> $(srcidr) != $(builddir). Here's the relevant output from "make -d" (I
> guess):
> 
>      Finished prerequisites of target file `gobject-decl.txt'.
>      Prerequisite `scan-build.stamp' is newer than target
> `gobject-decl.txt'.
>      Must remake target `gobject-decl.txt'.
>      Ignoring VPATH name
> `../../../../../cvs/glib/docs/reference/gobject/gobject-decl.txt'.
> 
> All the output of the gtkdoc-* scripts is in $(srcdir), yet for some
> reason make insists that they be in $(builddir). (This is GNU make
> 3.78.1) Does anyone know why this would be? Thanks.

How does it actually fail?
                                        Owen