From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8ioqdch.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020701014139.GA3421@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
>>>>> "Nathanael" == Nathanael Nerode <neroden@doctormoo.dyndns.org> writes:
Nathanael> * zlib has no check target, so I have to somehow leave it
Nathanael> out
zlib definitely does have a check target in my tree:
fleche. grep ^check: zlib/Makefile.in
check: check-am
Why doesn't it in yours? Automake always generates a check target.
It would be a severe (and surprising) bug if it were missing.
Nathanael> * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses
Nathanael> absolute pathnames for most directories which it puts into
Nathanael> the Makefile. This means you can no longer 'configure',
Nathanael> relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'. I doubt that
Nathanael> this is important.
In the past I've heard that people actually do this.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-01 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-30 18:43 Nathanael Nerode
2002-06-30 19:43 ` Tim Hollebeek
2002-07-01 9:00 ` Jeff Law
2002-07-01 9:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-01 10:22 ` Jeff Law
2002-07-10 15:27 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-10 15:49 ` Doug Evans
2002-06-30 19:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-30 21:19 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2002-07-01 3:41 ` Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci
2002-07-01 7:42 ` Ben Elliston
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