Re: [Tinycc-devel] VPATH builds

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Grishka,

Le 16 déc. 2012 à 17:45, grischka <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Patches are welcome here: http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git

I pushed there.

> A release is planned soon so please be careful.

Sure.  I'm not touching the sources.

> Also note that pushing a patch on our public branch means to share
> your work with other people, in the first place.

Of course.

> In that sense you might want to say one word at least about what
> "VPATH builds" means at all, and also to show typical usage of the
> feature with some commands example, for example.

I have added the following note in README:

> 1) Installation on a i386 Linux host (for Windows read tcc-win32.txt)
> 
>    ./configure
>    make
>    make test
>    make install
> 
> Alternatively, VPATH builds are supported: you may use different
> directories to old build objects, kept separate from your source tree:
> 
>    mkdir _build
>    cd _build
>    ../configure
>    make
>    make test
>    make install
> 
> By default, tcc is installed in /usr/local/bin.
> ./configure --help  shows configuration options.

"make test" is uncommon, and a bit misleading since there is
a tests directory.  Would you object to using the more traditional
"make check"?

Cheers!