Re: Any issues that would hold up release of 4.6.1?

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Thursday, 20 September 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Mojca Miklavec
> > <moj...@gm...> wrote:
> >> The problem is that files
> >>         docs/gnuplot-eldoc.el
> >>         docs/gnuplot-eldoc.elc
> >>         docs/gnuplot.texi
> >> are generated inside sources instead of being generated in the
> >> directory where configure script is run (when doing out-of-source
> >> build). This seems to be a bug in Makefile.in. The files gnuplot.elc
> >> and gnuplot-gui.elc are installed properly (generated in the proper
> >> place). The gnuplot-eldoc.el[c] is not.
> >>
> >> Mojca
> >
> > I can't reproduce that under any set of conditions:
> >   1) normal emacs - check
> >   2) no emacs - check
> >   3) renamed emacs - check
> >
> > Are you building/installing directly from the CVS tree or are you
> > creating a distribution tarball and testing that?
> 
> I'm building directly from the CVS tree (branch-4-6-stable), but I'm
> doing an *out of source* configure/make.
> 
> Here would be the exact rules to reproduce the error:
> 
> ~> mkdir gnuplot && cd gnuplot
> ~/gnuplot> mkdir sources
> ~/gnuplot> mkdir build
> ~/gnuplot> cd sources
> ~/gnuplot/sources> <checkout here>
> ~/gnuplot/sources> ./prepare
> ~/gnuplot/sources> cd ../build
> ~/gnuplot/build> ../sources/configure --prefix=$PWD/install
> ~/gnuplot/build> make
> ~/gnuplot/build> make install # this fails

After fighting with this all day yesterday, I decided to instead
backport the emacs+info related Makefile scripting from 4.7 to 4.6.
Please let me know whether the modified .../docs/Makefile.in 
from today's CVS resolves your out-of-source build problems.

	Ethan