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changeset 21692:303a96060ff1
More of previous.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:14:05 +0000 |
| parents | 2a33987c0f02 |
| children | fc0153e88b71 |
| files | INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 06:13:36 1998 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL Tue Apr 21 06:14:05 1998 +0000 @@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ To build in a separate directory, you must use a version of `make' that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. -3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory -by filling it full of symlinks to the real source directory. +3c) Some people try to build in a separate directory by filling +it full of symlinks to the files in the real source directory. If you do that, `make all' does work, but `make install' fails: it copies the symbolic links rather than the actual files.