On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Montaseri <[email protected]> wrote:
> In your solution....do you run the configure(1) script from the ROOT_SRC > directory first. If so, this unfortunately it is not quiet what I am looking > for. The requirement is, > Yes, that's what i did, BUT my approach does not require editing the top tree: it only looks for dirs with Makefiles containing the line "include thisdir.make", and generates thisdir.make where it doesn't exist (it gets cleaned up by 'make distclean'). > - check out the src code into any random place on your filesystem > - go to any arbitrary subdir in the src tree and say make > i don't see a way around that without telling make where to look. You could have a wrapper shell script which walks up the dir chain looking for makefiles, but that's also a bit clumsy. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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