On 2018-02-06 15:53, Volker Simonis wrote:
Hi,
as Matthias wrote, we're usually running configure from a newly
created build directory which is outside the source tree. Also, the
build user who calls configure may differ from the user owning the
source tree. I'd therefor like to propose the following small change
which checks from where 'configure' was called. If configure was
called from within the source tree, nothing changes, otherwise we will
create the '.build' helper directory which contains
'generated-configure.sh' right in the current build directory:
diff -r fd40b0b3d849 make/autoconf/configure
--- a/make/autoconf/configure Tue Feb 06 23:49:10 2018 +0530
+++ b/make/autoconf/configure Tue Feb 06 15:46:48 2018 +0100
@@ -52,7 +52,16 @@
fi
build_support_dir="$CUSTOM_ROOT/.build"
else
- build_support_dir="$TOPDIR/.build"
+ # Test from where we are running configure, in or outside of src root.
+ if test "x$TOPDIR" = `pwd`; then
+ # We are running configure from the src root.
+ # Create 'build_support_dir' under $TOPDIR
+ build_support_dir="$TOPDIR/.build"
+ else
+ # We are running configure from outside of the src dir.
+ # Create 'build_support_dir' in the current directory.
+ build_support_dir=".build"
+ fi
fi
conf_script_dir="$TOPDIR/make/autoconf"
Would you be OK with this change? If nobody complains, I will open a
JBS issue and submit a webrev for formal review.
Hi Volker and Matthias,
I'm sorry I missed this usecase. :-(
I think the patch is OK. I'm just thinking about the "make reconfigure"
case. I guess it works as long as you call "make reconfigure" from the
same directory, but then again, that's probably the likely way to work
in this case. It will *not* work in the case that you do e.g.:
mkdir -p build/mybuild && cd build/mybuild
bash ../../configure
cd ../..
make CONF=mybuild
but then again, mixing "methods" like that is perhaps not so common, and
the only penalty is that we get two .build directories.
Maybe we should even use "configure-support" instead of ".build" as
build_support_dir for the "outside of src dir" case? It would certainly
fit in better with already existing structure in the build output directory.
/Magnus
Regards,
Volker
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Baesken, Matthias
<matthias.baes...@sap.com> wrote:
Hello I noticed that after replacing generated-configure.sh and using
autoconf , the build process writes into the sources .
Error looks like this :
Runnable configure script is not present
Generating runnable configure script
mkdir: cannot create directory `/openjdk/linuxppc64/jdk/.build': Permission
denied
( I run configure from a separate generation directory )
Is there a way around this currently (e.g. placing the .build folder where
configure is started and not into the sources ?) ?
Thanks ,Matthias
