From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:10:56 -0500 Sender: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vgazuun3.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87bscvjez9.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <873cy6f8av.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018473145 8495 127.0.0.1 (10 Apr 2002 21:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mvo@zagadka.ping.de, bug-guile@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vPOC-0002Cu-00 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vPNy-0000nE-00; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vPMn-0000jB-00 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A5141B4; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:10:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 564F214D6; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:10:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:34:52 -0700") Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:118 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:118 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > From: Marius Vollmer > Date: 08 Apr 2002 18:45:44 +0200 > > A VPATH build is when you compile in a directory other than the source > directory. This is useful when you want to compile a package for > different configurations but from a common source. The name stems > from the fact that it is implemented using the VPATH variable of make. > > could you describe VPATH as "configure in place, make from elsewhere"? > or is configure done elsewhere also? i've heard the latter referred to > as srcdir!=builddir (and usually make is done where configure is). Check out the "Compiling For Multiple Architectures" node in autoconf's info pages -- it explains the process at least... > i'm assuming that whatever changes made to branch_release-1-6 that are > long-term applicable would be also made in HEAD roughly concurrently, > but i guess this is saved for later? I've been trying to make sure to migrate all my 1.6 patches to HEAD, but there are still some outstanding. Of course some of the lag is because I'm not sure we'll want to handle things the same in 1.8. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile