jemalloc / jemalloc/jemalloc

make install failed when using separate build directory

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Hi,
I've tried to build the last release tarball 5.1.0, the build was fine until the make install stopped with the following error:

/usr/bin/install: cannot stat 'doc/jemalloc.html': No such file or directory

Before I did:

mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix<...>
make
make install

Since the file does exist, I've tried without the separate build directory which works fine.
Maybe you want to fix the build from a separate build directory, or add a hint that this is not supported.

Thanks in advance.

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Reproduce the release-tarball build with a separate build directory using ../configure, make, and make install. Inspect the install step around the missing doc/jemalloc.html path; done means installation succeeds from the separate build directory as it does from the source directory.

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