Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl compilation report (redhat 7.3, gcc 3.2, gcl 2.4.3)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Thanks for the references, and for writing the references! 

GCL's configure runs several subconfigures in subdirectories.  This is
the first point of failure when attempting to build in a different
directory.  There must be some autoconf variable specifying the source
directory, but I cannot find it.  Currently, configure.in just does cd
<dir> && ./configure, which obviously won't work.

Any insight appreciated.

Take are, 

Ian Lance Taylor <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Greetings, and please forgive the intrusion!  A GCL user suggested
> > writing you for advice as to how to setup an autoconf generated
> > configure script to be able to perform the subsequent build in a
> > different directory.  I can't find any explanation in the info page
> > docs I have (quick try only) -- if you know of any online doc
> > describing this or an online simple example, I'd be most grateful. 
> 
> Normally, if you use an autoconf generated configure script, and you
> build with GNU make, building in a separate directory just works.  In
> your note you didn't provide enough information for me to guess as to
> why it didn't work for you.
> 
> The book which Dan mentions is online, at
>     http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/
> I also wrote a shorter article about the GNU configure system, online
> at
>     http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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