Re: minor docs alteration

Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:59:35 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
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On 31 May 2018 22:44, Jefferson Carpenter wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] automake.texi: clarify relationship between configure and
>  build dir
> 
> I know you what this meant, but as a kid this would have confused me - the
> word "in" seems to imply that the "configure" file is inside of the build dir,
> as if it should be copied there or something.  The word "from" makes it more
> clear that the intended action is to run "../configure" (or more generally
> "$SOURCE_DIR/configure") from the build dir.
> 
> --- a/doc/automake.texi
> +++ b/doc/automake.texi
> @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ The source tree is rooted in the directory containing
>  @file{configure}.  It contains all the sources files (those that are
>  distributed), and may be arranged using several subdirectories.
>  
> -The build tree is rooted in the directory in which @file{configure}
> +The build tree is rooted in the directory from which @file{configure}
>  was run, and is populated with all object files, programs, libraries,
>  and other derived files built from the sources (and hence not
>  distributed).  The build tree usually has the same subdirectory layout

thanks for the patch.  it looks like Karl took inspiration from your suggestion
and applied a fix to use "rooted in the current directory at the time configure"
phrasing instead.  i don't see a response in the group about it, so this is more
of an FYI :).
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=8e05f006415d1811785ab5dab1ea4ae5a44c184e
-mike

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