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From: | David Squire |
Subject: | Re: [help-GIFT] patch set! |
Date: | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:24:49 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) |
address@hidden wrote:
I am not talking about autoconf recommendations. I am talking about standards for GNU projects, which must be adhered to because of the 'G' in 'GIFT'. I have built many, many GNU programs, and not one ever required me to do what you describe above. I think we should stick to the standard GNU way of doing things.On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:00:05AM +0100, David Squire wrote:address@hidden wrote:make gift build in a builddir (AKA, instead of doing "./configure; make" you do "mkdir build; cd build; ../configure ; make")Why would you do that? That is not the standard way for a GNU project to be built. That one, I think, will have to be rescinded.per page 13 of my autoconf book, it is the standard. :) the features to do it are built into autoconf and everything. i'll forward you some links reguarding the standardness of not using SRCDIR for BUILDDIR as soon as i get to work.
The standard GNU way is: tar xvfz package.tgz cd package ./configure make (make test) make installThis is so standard that I typically do it without even reading README and INSTALL when building GNU stuff.
Regards, David -- Dr David McG. Squire, Senior Lecturer. On sabbatical in 2006. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia CRICOS Provider No. 00008C http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/
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