Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the file FAQ still causes trouble, this time with "make rpm-package". The
> problem only occurs when you start with a clean tree. The problem comes
> from the fact that the file help/faq.txt is required to generate the file,
> but that file isn't present at that time, because the rule to generate it
> is in a subdirectory. I've fixed that dependency in commit 27080 but I'd
> like to propose a cleaner fix: Currently we have two files of identical
> content, FAQ and help/faq.txt (and it was probably me who introduced that).
> IMO we should get rid of one of the two copies and generate the remaining
> file in the place where it is placed. Does anyone mind if we get rid of
> the toplevel FAQ file and keep the help/faq.txt file? We can always add
> FAQ back via the packaging tools (rpm specfile, nsis, etc). Opinions?
Sounds good. I've checked in a change that does this for Windows.
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