On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > build targets, it should still build stuff. > > It doesn't make sense to have the build target depend on build-a and > build-b because one of these builds would overwrite the other. > The only sane way to make the build target do something useful would > be for it to sequentially: build-a, install-a, build-b, install-b > > Is the packaging manual wrong?
No, but you are probably not aware of the possibility to build in a subdirectory. GNU make supports a VPATH variable, which does that. Please refer to my other mail, where I spelled this out in detail. mkdir build-a cd build-a ../configure --with-gnome make works fine. This is the reason why you can have two builds at the same time without overwriting each other. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
