Re: build files

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 11.04.2011 11:26, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> I wonder about creation of the 3 new directores config/mingw/,
> config/cygwin/, config/watcom/ ... but not for all other makefiles. Until
> now all makefiles, including unixish ./configure + make, put all .o into
> src/, and nobody complains.

I complained, by doing something about it.  If you're going to use the 
same source tree with multiple compilers, it's quite important that none 
of them clutters up the source tree itself.

And actually no, the autoconf build does not have to do that, either. 
It's quite standard procedure to build outside the source tree, i.e.

	cd /some/where/gnuplot
	[ -d cygwin ] || mkdir cygwin
	cd cygwin
	../configure && make install

It's wasteful to rebuild the entire program from scratch each time you 
switch target platform (think of an actual heterogeneous Unix 
environment with different hardware platforms, different OSes and 
compilers in play), just because the source is cluttered with object files.