Re: Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 04/18/2012 10:28 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:14:55 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Clearly we'll not be able to make everybody happy.
>> I understood Jan's comment as a suggestion, not an objection, so
>> I'll take the path of least effort, and get this over with.
> 
> To make clear I am curious how anyone can have two different directories of
> the same name, I often use things like "find src -name foo" and do something
> with it.  I see there exist different preferences.


Okay, thinking some more, gnulib/import isn't that bad.  I wrote initially:

On 04/17/2012 05:49 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> I thought of:
>
>  gnulib/src/
>  gnulib/import/
>
> but that ends up with the confusing:
>
>  GNULIB_CFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/gnulib/src -I$(GNULIB_BUILDDIR)/src
>
> Confusing because $(GNULIB_BUILDDIR)/src isn't really src, but the
> built libgnu.a and the generated headers.

But:

GNULIB_CFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/gnulib/import -I$(GNULIB_BUILDDIR)/import

isn't that confusing.  $(GNULIB_BUILDDIR)/import is the build of
the gnulib import.

Would that make everybody happy?

-- 
Pedro Alves