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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: |
Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:06:54 -0400 |
On 12-Aug-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
| > Might there be a good reason to add an option for the build directory to
the configure script? Patterning after this:
| >
| > Fine tuning of the installation directories:
| > --bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
| > --sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
| >
| > for example:
| >
| > --builddir=DIR object and libraries
| >
| > It's essentially the same as doing a
| >
| > mkdir ../DIR
| > cd ../DIR
| > ../octave/configure OTHER_OPTS
| > cd ../octave
| >
| > Or something like that. By having this as an option, it lets people know
that a separate build directory can be done, and it might be useful down the
road to someone who wants to build a generic script or something.
| >
| > Dan
|
| Sounds good to me!
This seems like a generic option for configure scripts, so I think you
should discuss it on the autoconf mailing list so that it would be
consistent for all projects that use autoconf, not just Octave.
jwe
- Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8, (continued)
- 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, Ben Abbott, 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, 2012/08/11
- 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 <=
- 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, 2012/08/13
- 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