[PATCH] Have to configure and build inside the source directory.
Rob Browning
rlb at defaultvalue.org
Fri Jan 28 15:18:16 PST 2011
Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:
> What do other build systems generally do when running configure from
> some other directory? Copy/link the Makefiles and then construct them
> carefully such that they can find all the source files?
I think the use of GNU make VPATH is fairly common. For example, I
believe the autotools build a tree that matches the srcdir structure and
add Makefiles that contain something like this:
VPATH = ../../wherever/notmuch/thisdir
...
Of course, given that, the build tree doesn't include any source files.
FWIW
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