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Re: trunk r115472: Make 'configure' work out-of-the-box on Solaris.


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: trunk r115472: Make 'configure' work out-of-the-box on Solaris.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:13:54 +0100

> Aside from multiple branches, which are a PITA if conceptually they're
> supposed to be identical source IMO, surely Emacs uses the wonderful
> support Make has for VPATH aka configure --srcdir builds?  Have a GTK
> blddir, a Lucid blddir, etc for any that you regularly build.  After
> doing that once, just "make" should win (or perhaps an occasional
> "make bootstrap").

Sounds intriguing.  Does anyone do that here?

> Either way, you could add support for it feature by feature without
> disturbing current users just by defaulting --enable-missing-features
> to "no", or all the --enable-FEATURE options to "yes".

The last time I checked this, building stops when it doesn't find a
missing image library but continues when it doesn't find the Motif
libraries.

martin



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