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‘install-license-files’ phase is ineffective with out-of-tree builds

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: ‘install-license-files’ phase is
 ineffective with out-of-tree builds
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 22:59:30 +0200

Hello,

The ‘install-license-files’ phase doesn’t install anything when doing
builds with #:out-of-source? #t, as is the case for ‘glibc’ and for
anything using ‘cmake-build-system’.

That’s because it looks for license files in “.”, which is incorrect in
this case.

Ludo’.

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