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Re: VPATH rebuilding of gawk
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Andrew J. Schorr |
Subject: |
Re: VPATH rebuilding of gawk |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:37:31 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:06:36PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Andrew J. Schorr wrote on Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:57:20PM CET:
> >
> > Yes, well I guess I see no reason to include the 'eg' tree in the
> > distributed tarball (or in CVS for that matter). Given that 'eg'
> > is generated from the .texi docs, why bother to distribute it and/or
> > maintain it?
>
> To facilitate cross-compilation?
I agree, that would be the one good argument I can see for including the 'eg'
tree in the distro. I have never tried cross-compiling gawk, so I can't speak
to whether it generally works.
> I agree with the rest you wrote, I merely think that changing the
> current state isn't a clear win-only situation, see above. But
> certainly I don't care much.
I don't care that much either, I had just thought that the general
principle was to build stuff inside the build directory, not inside
the source directory. But if this would break cross-compilation, then
best to leave as is. Does anybody know whether the current tree
cross-compiles successfully? Certainly 'make check' would not work
in that situation, I think...
Regards,
Andy