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

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Normally subdirectories with their own configure script are specified
in the top level configure.in using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.  No additional
mechanisms should be required.

Ian