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Re: Build directory option for configure script


From: Daniel J Sebald
Subject: Re: Build directory option for configure script
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:23:12 -0500
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On 08/13/2012 12:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 08/13/2012 10:57 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
it might be something like:

--builddir=DIR           object and libraries

which is essentially the same as doing:

mkdir ../DIR
cd ../DIR
../<projname>/configure OTHER_OPTS
cd ../<projname>



I'm reading up on VPATH builds.  I'll toss the VPATH method over to the
Octave discussion list.

What you suggested above IS a VPATH build.  VPATH is the 'make' variable
name for using a builddir that is different from the sourcedir, and your
proposal is just about adding syntactic sugar to the ./configure command
to make a VPATH build easier to specify from the configure command line,
by naming something other than '.' as the builddir.

Got it.

Thanks,

Dan



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