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Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at doctormoo dot dyndns dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 30 Jun 2002 22:30:38 -0600
- Subject: Re: Top Level Autoconfiscation Status
- References: <20020701014139.GA3421@doctormoo.dyndns.org>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "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