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Linus Nordberg <linus@swox.se> writes:

> Couldn't we simply make a symlink into the build directory before
> building texi/gnus?

Hmm, AFAIK, this would fail under Windows, because it doesn't know
about symlinks. Then again, it's still possible to copy the source
tree and to build in the new location.

norbert.
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