Re: [Valgrind-users] install question: how to build for multiple architectures?

[Ashley P. <as...@pi...>]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 20:30 +0200, Julian Seward wrote:
> > Compiling For Multiple Architectures
> > ====================================
> >
> >    You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at
> the
> > same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in
> their
> > own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
> > supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
> > directory where you want the object files and executables to go and
> run
> > the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the
> > source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
> 
> Urr, that's standard GNU boilerplate guff.  I don't know if it applies
> to us or not.

Unless it's been fixed in the last month the VPATH stuff is broken on
the HEAD, I posted a patch to make the basic build work last month but
there are remaining problems, the tests don't work for example.

Ashley,