From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: 4.17.85 configure w/ relative path fails to build bfd/dwarf1.c
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iuc1j8ka.fsf@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903160413.UAA13381.cygnus.gdb@alabama.wrs.com>
>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Whitesel <toddpw@wrs.com> writes:
Todd> Is there any way for configure to detect & complain about this,
Todd> or am I now in RTFM land?
Builddir!=srcdir builds are only supported with GNU make. This is a
longstanding limitation of basically any GNU-style utility. That's
because most vendor makes incorrectly implement VPATH (whether yours
is one such I don't know offhand, but based on your reports I would
say yes).
You cannot detect this at configure time because you don't know which
`make' the user is going to run. E.g. you might do `configure; gmake'
-- in which case any configure complaint would be incorrect.
It might be possible to detect this at `make' time, but I haven't
given it any thought. If you know of a way to do it, I'd like to know
-- I'll add it to automake.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-01 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-01 0:00 Todd Whitesel
[not found] ` <199903160413.UAA13381.cygnus.gdb@alabama.wrs.com>
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Todd Whitesel
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Jim Blandy
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Todd Whitesel
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Jim Blandy
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Stan Shebs
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Todd Whitesel
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