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From: Ronald Landheer-C. <bly...@us...> - 2003-10-27 12:10:06
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:59:10PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > The problem is, I wrote the Makefile.am's without really knowing > anything about autoconf/automake. I am seeing that you basically changed > top_srcdir with top_builddir. What's the difference? From the autoconf > page I see > top_srcdir: The relative path to the top-level source code directory for > the package. > top_builddir: The relative path to the top-level of the current build > tree. > I don't really know how this relates to cgdb or why you changed it. If you want to do an out-of-directory build (i.e. ../cgdb-src/configure && make) you need to point to the right directory - the one the files are actually in. Out-of-directory builds especially work nicely with read-only source trees and symlinked source trees. The latter is often used when creating patches relative to a read-only (already-released/canonical) source tree: you untar the source tree, make it read-only, symlink-tree it (the script can be found in the gcc sources and comes in really handy) and do an out-of-tree build on the symlink tree. You can then run diff between the r/o source tree and the r/w symlink tree after you've made changes to the files in the symlink tree (unlinking every file you change). When I made the patch, I was working with an out-of-tree build, as is normal for Cygwin packages, and as I normally do for my own builds for the reasons described above.. > I noticed that you also changed the noinst_bin_PROGRAMS and > noinst_bindir to noinst_PROGRAMS. This doesn't work so well for me since > programs no longer install into the cgdb/progs directory. What would you > recommend for this? AFAICT, you don't actually want to install those files (with make install) do you? If so, you can have them constructed in-place (with noinst_PROGRAMS) and use the $(builddir) variable to find out where they are. I don't quite remember what the problems were with the noinst_bindir setup, but there was a reason why I removed it.. I'd have to try to find out. In any case, after removing it the build I did worked w/o any problems. > I applied your patch, and it builds in the tree properly. What is the > command that you were using to build out of the tree? I would like to > make sure they both work before I commit the patch. From the root of your work directory: $ tar xzvf cgdb-version-src.tar.gz $ mkdir cgdb-build $ cd cgdb-build $ ../cgdb-version/configure --prefix=/usr $ make $ make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/../cgdb-install HTH rlc |
