Re: doc/src/sgml/Makefile versus VPATH

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > By Peter's recent decree that tarballs are supposed to be built in
> > non-vpath-builds only, I am not really sure what should actually happen
> > here, both on build and on the various clean targets.
> 
> I think that that means the Makefile can just assume that *every* built
> file is built in the current directory, and $(srcdir) should only be
> applied to non-derived files.

More or less, except when you are installing, you need to look in both
places for files to install (and preferably avoid installing both, I
think).