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Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8 |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:45:09 -0400 |
On 13-Aug-2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
| The first feedback is that the group will discuss a bit, seeking input
| from GNU Coding Standards. This concept is already covered by VPATH
| (virtual path) and is discussed in the Autoconf general INSTALL file.
| Here is a tutorial on VPATH:
|
|
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/configuring_a_project_with_autoconf
|
| Note the list of reasons for VPATH in the above link are pretty much
| what we've concluded.
|
| Does anyone here have experience with VPATH? If so, does this seem like
| something to utilize for the separate build directory idea? My initial
| reaction is that VPATH doesn't look like a real robust feature, having
| some older make tools not working properly and some of the comments in
| aclocal.m4 suggesting some quirks.
|
| So one argument against making the VPATH concept a one-liner (from
| Autoconf's perspective) is that it makes running into snags too easy for
| the person not familiar with VPATH resulting in too many complaints.
VPATH is the Make feature that allows the out-of-source-tree builds
that autoconf-generate scripts have been using for nearly 20 years.
So that is what we use to do out-of-source-tree builds. It works
fine.
I don't really see the need to change anything, though some people
might find that it is convenient to have a --build-dir option for
configure as a minor convenience.
jwe
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, (continued)
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Michael Goffioul, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/08/13
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/08/13
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Michael Goffioul, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/12
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Michael Goffioul, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Michael Goffioul, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/11
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, Ben Abbott, 2012/08/24