Building documents outside doc/ tree impossible?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.05.30 18:16:15 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> My memory fails to tell me reliably if this was ever possible, but
> I've just found that building a document outside the doc/ tree fails
> due to errors regarding mailing list entities.  Of course, I'm
> setting DOC_PREFIX to the actual location of the doc/ tree.  Is
> this by design, due to a bug, or my fault?  I've failed to find any
> suspicious Makefile.inc files in the tree or whatever.

I think it should be possible to build docs outside, but I would not
surprise me at all if it was broken... There are a lot of magic in the
build system... You might want to see hiw the release documentation,
which lives under src/release/doc, does it build.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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