The following reply was made to PR config/2289; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "RobS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: config/2289: TestCompile fails because make assumes its running in the Makefile directory Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:50:57 -0400 > The script used to be the way you suggest, but it was > changed last year. TestCompile needs to link stuff in the > same location as the real compile to be reliable. > > I don't understand quite what your problem was though. Are > you trying to configure and/or make Apache in a separate > directory from the source tree, or is there some other > uncommon thing you're trying to do? Looking at the PR, I can certainly understand your confusion. It was a QNX 4.24 problem. QNX used a fairly old version of gmake (3.74 I think). After I wrote the PR, I found that it sometimes worked. Yes, I mean sometimes. It was odd. I honestly can't remember the details. I think the object files and binaries were being created in the parent directory and thus the tests for them failed. Sorry I didn't get around to annotating the PR. QNX also had a broken regexp implementation in sed which broke the top level configure script (I may have written a PR. Weird stuff you take for granted. You can close the PR to "not enough information".. unless you know a QNX user to ask for more input. I've finished the contract at the company where I was doing the work with QNX. robs
