Re: 'make install' fails when build directory is differnet from that of source tree.

[Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 'make install' fails when build directory is differnet from that of source tree.
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 08:03:42 +0000

> I suspect that extending the last patch (workers/45943) to (1) copy
> Doc/help/ and Doc/help.txt [due to the aforementioned workers/43392],
> and (2) s/cp/cp -p/, would address this.  However, I'm afraid I don't
> currently have time to implement and test this.  If you have time to do
> so, you'll be very welcome; if not, I'll implement that and post the
> patch when I have a minute.

I changed your patch as following.

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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e78ebf86b..995f010b9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3178,6 +3178,22 @@ AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([stamp-h], [echo >stamp-h])
 
 AC_OUTPUT
 
+dnl Copy pre-built man pages and help files, for tarball out-of-tree builds.
+for manpage in `cd ${srcdir} && echo Doc/*.1`; do
+  if test x"$manpage" != x"Doc/*.1" && ! test -e "${manpage}"; then
+    cp ${srcdir}/${manpage} ./Doc/
+  fi
+done
+if ! test -e Doc/help.txt; then
+  cp ${srcdir}/Doc/help.txt ./Doc/
+fi
+mkdir -p ./Doc/help
+for helpfile in `cd ${srcdir} && echo Doc/help/*`; do
+  if test x"$helpfile" != x"Doc/help/*" && ! test -e "${helpfile}"; then
+    cp ${srcdir}/${helpfile} ./Doc/help/
+  fi
+done
+
 eval "zshbin1=${bindir}"
 eval "zshbin2=${zshbin1}"
 eval "zshman1=${mandir}"
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Then tarball out-of-tree 'make install.runhelp' succeeds on base
system only FreeBSD 12.1 amd.

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Yasuhiro KIMURA