* Allen Irwin wrote on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:08:17PM CEST: > > > > Right now I'm having to delete the whole directory structure and untar > > > my libs each time. > > > > Hmm, yet another reason to have a build tree separate from the source > > tree. You should try that. But also, quite a number of packages break > > VPATH builds (unintentionally) when the maintainers don't use them. > > OTOH, there are also packages which require you to have a build tree > > different from the source tree (GCC, for example). > > Thanks for your reply Ralf! I wasn't aware I had an option of a > separate source and build dir. I'll do some research into that (I can > see the --srcdir option) as that certainly makes sense.
No need for --srcdir. Just do it like this (assuming the sources live in the directory $PACKAGE-$VERSION): mkdir build cd build ../$PACKAGE-$VERSION/configure [ OPTIONS.. ] make make install Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
