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[Matthias Andree]

Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:

> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> > version of bogofilter across multiple targets, I have to manually copy
>> > the formatted documents in the 'doc' subdirectory to the 'doc'
>> > subdirectory for the target being built (I configure/build bogofilter
>> > from outside the source directory).
>>
>> Well, such a VPATH build /should/ work, but it's lightly tested because
>> I test the VPATH build on the "make destdir" or "make dest" output
>> rather than the raw CVS. I'll investigate that and see if there's
>> anything I can fix.
>
> The VPATH build is working as expected.  Normally a VPATH build is not
> expected to update the source directory.

Getting back to the original question, factoring out a "doc" target
isn't trivial with automake. I'm not sure if I want to do it. Try using
GNU make (assume it's called gmake): ( cd doc && gmake -t ) -- it will
not rebuild the targets, but fake them (using a "touch" equivalent).

-- 
Matthias Andree