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Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir
- From: Schulman dot Andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:47:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir
>> Problem: the --srcdir switch doesn't work in many configure scripts.
Of
>> the three packages I've built, one didn't have a configure script at
>> all, and in the other two the --srcdir switch didn't work as it was
>> supposed to. As a result the build step would fail. I had to set up
a
>> tree of symlinks to the main source tree before I could build.
>
> That's why I provided the lndir.sh utility in the packaging/templates
> directory.
Er... packaging/templates directory of what?