Re: [Nasm-devel] building outside the source directory

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 01:52:43PM -0400, Ed Beroset wrote:
> Today, for the first time in a long time, I refreshed my local copy of the
> NASM repo and tried to do a built outside the source directory, as is my
> usual practice.  It failed.
> 
> Specifically, if you clone the source into a fresh new directory "nasm" and
> then create and navigate into "nasm/build" I would expect the following
> steps to successfully do a build:
> 
> autoreconf .. -i
> ../configure
> make
> 
> However it fails because of the generated file pptok.sh
> 
> I believe I can fix this, but before I expend the effort to do so, I wanted
> ask some questions:
> 
> 1. can you reproduce this problem?
> 2. do you agree it should be fixed?
> 
> Thanks.

Hi Ed! Why did you enter nasm/build? Usually I personally run ./autogen.sh
from root source directory. Would it work for you?