Re: Build directory option for configure script

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/13/2012 12:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 10:57 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > > > it might be something like:
> > > >
> > > > --builddir=DIR           object and libraries
> > > >
> > > > which is essentially the same as doing:
> > > >
> > > > mkdir ../DIR
> > > > cd ../DIR
> > > > ../<projname>/configure OTHER_OPTS
> > > > cd ../<projname>
>
> > I'm reading up on VPATH builds.  I'll toss the VPATH method over to the
> > Octave discussion list.
>
> What you suggested above IS a VPATH build.  VPATH is the 'make' variable
> name for using a builddir that is different from the sourcedir, and your
> proposal is just about adding syntactic sugar to the ./configure command
> to make a VPATH build easier to specify from the configure command line,
> by naming something other than '.' as the builddir.

Octave main developers see it the same way.  VPATH is what's being used 
and it works fine.  The proposal is just a convenience, i.e., syntactic 
sugar.

Dan