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Hi,

When configuring gnus in other dir than the source dir, building
texi/gnus fails because makeinfo can't find gnus-faq.texi, @include'd
in gnus.texi.

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

--linus

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 5.1
diff -c -p -c -r5.1 configure.in
*** configure.in	1998/08/29 17:42:59	5.1
--- configure.in	2000/05/26 19:38:15
***************
*** 1,6 ****
--- 1,7 ----
  AC_INIT(lisp/gnus.el)
  AC_SET_MAKE
  AC_PROG_INSTALL
+ AC_PROG_LN_S
  AM_PATH_LISPDIR
  AC_PATH_PROG(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, no)
  AC_OUTPUT(Makefile lisp/Makefile texi/Makefile)
Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 5.9
diff -c -p -c -r5.9 Makefile.in
*** Makefile.in	2000/05/01 12:21:43	5.9
--- Makefile.in	2000/05/26 19:40:39
*************** INSTALL = @INSTALL@
*** 19,24 ****
--- 19,27 ----
  INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  PAPERTYPE=a4
+ LN_S = @LN_S@
+ #FIXME: Use LN_S to symlink $(srcdir)/gnus-faq.texi to build dir before 
+ #       making gnus.
  
  all: gnus message emacs-mime