Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> All of my builds are done with VPATH, and I use the commit script with them 
> just fine!

When bootstrap completes it says this:

WARNING: You might want to regenerate `commit' and `libltdl/config/mailnotify'
WARNING: after you have run `configure' to discover the real whereabouts
WARNING: of `sed', `grep' etc. like this:
WARNING:
WARNING:      rm -f commit libltdl/config/mailnotify
WARNING:      make -f Makefile.maint ./commit ./libltdl/config/mailnotify

Please explain how this is addressed in the context of a VPATH build 
where only bootstrap is executed in the source tree.
I expect that the commit script will work by default on your system 
since you are the one who wrote it. :-)

% gmake -n -f Makefile.maint ./commit ./libltdl/config/mailnotify
Makefile.maint:27: Makefile: No such file or directory
 *** Run maintainer rules from the build tree, with
 *** `make -f../Makefile.maint' for example, where
 *** `../' is the relative path back to the directory
 *** that contains the `Makefile.maint'.  Alternatively,
 *** run `./configure' in the source tree for an in
 *** tree build.
gmake: *** [Makefile] Error 1

However, then I follow these instructions I see the warning
../../../../home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool-head/Makefile.maint:29: 
warning: overriding commands for target `Makefile'
Makefile:692: warning: ignoring old commands for target `Makefile'

and nothing gets done.

I know that the answer would be intuitively obvious if I drank some 
Guinness beer (works like spinach does for Popeye) but it is morning 
here, and in the US we don't start as early as you folks do.

Bob
======================================
Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/