Re: Why is srcdir passed as .

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 25, 2000, Ben Woodard <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am having a problem with my configure script where when configure is
> called for the subprojects a parameter --srcdir=. is passed into them
> when I just do configure.

srcdir is supposed to be the top-level directory of the project (or
subproject), not the top-level of the whole tree.

The rationale is that you can just grab whatever set of packages, put
them as sub-directories of your package, create a top-level configure
and Makefile and everything will just work.

If instead --srcdir were passed as the top-level directory, you'd have
to adjust every sub-package so as to ``know'' it's been packaged
differently.

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