Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > The VPATH build is quite useful for libtool, particularly given that
> > 'make clean' and 'make distclean' do not work unless the testsuite has
> > been successfully run.
>
> Could you elaborate on that?  How can I reproduce non-working 'make
> clean'?

I am not sure if the problem still exists.  For a number of years it 
was not possible since the Makefiles in the test subdirectories were 
broken or did not exist.  Or perhaps the problem was lmited to 'make 
distclean'.

'make distclean' is most important and it is still failing:

`/scratch/bfriesen/build/libtool-head/tests/mdemo'
Making distclean in tests/fcdemo
/home/bfriesen/build/libtool-head/tests/fcdemo
gmake[1]: Entering directory 
`/scratch/bfriesen/build/libtool-head/tests/fcdemo'
gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/scratch/bfriesen/build/libtool-head/tests/fcdemo'
gmake: *** [distclean-recursive] Error 1

Bob
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