Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl compilation report (redhat 7.3, gcc 3.2, gcl 2.4.3)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and please forgive the intrusion!  A GCL user suggested
writing you for advice as to how to setup an autoconf generated
configure script to be able to perform the subsequent build in a
different directory.  I can't find any explanation in the info page
docs I have (quick try only) -- if you know of any online doc
describing this or an online simple example, I'd be most grateful. 

Take care,

Dan Hitt <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm,
> 
> Thanks for your mail.  Unfortunately, i know very little about how
> to make a configure build in a non-source directory.
> 
> However, there's a wonderful book
>    GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
> by 
>    Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor
> published by New Riders (isbn 1-57870-190-2).
> 
> And right at the start of the book (page 12) it praises the virtues of
> keeping 3 directories (source, build, and install), and perhaps
> chapter 7 may explain how to do it---however it's hard for me to tell
> by just glancing through it because i'm not a maintainer, so i've
> never done this from the maintainer's end.
> 
> But one person who would know for sure how to do it, and who
> is very nice as well, is Ian Taylor (address@hidden).  And if a method
> is described in the book, he should be able to supply chapter and verse
> as to where.
> 
> Sorry not to have anything more specific, and thanks for adding the
> emacs directory option.
> 
> dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    From: Camm Maguire <address@hidden>
>    Date: 13 Nov 2002 14:41:53 -0500
>       .....
>    > Suppose that i've unpacked the distribution and it is in
>    >     /home/lisp/gcl-2.4.3
>    > Then i do this:
>    >     mkdir /home/lisp/build
>    >     cd /home/lisp/build
>    >     ../gcl-2.4.3/configure   <<<configure arguments . . .>>>
>    > The configure script will work, or, at least, write some files and then
>    > exit with 0 status.
>    > 
>    > But when i type
>    >     make
>    > in the /home/lisp/build directory, the build will fail.
>    > 
>    > However, if i instead do
>    >     cd /home/lisp/gcl-2.4.3
>    >     ./configure <<<configure arguments . . .>>>
>    >     make
>    > the build will work.
>    > 
> 
>    This is new to me!  How is this accomplished in gcc?  Can autoconf
>    generated configure scripts be setup to do this automatically?
> 
>      ...
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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