I think I took it as an opportunity to learn a tiny bit of automake
having avoided it so far!

Ho hum... an update is in progress.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Jacek Caban <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> Sorry for my response time too... Why don't you put the warning in
> configure.ac instead of Makefile? Also the warning could say something like
> "--with-widl used in out of the tree compilation. Existing generated files
> won't be modified."
>
> Cheers,
> Jacek
>
>
> On 02/03/13 19:44, Ray Donnelly wrote:
>
> Hi Jacek,
>
> Sorry for the long response time.
>
> Please find attached a new version of the patch that adds the warning
> you mentioned.
>
> I also named it as .a txt file and removed all auto generated files.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ray.
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Jacek Caban <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> .idl.h: crt/_mingw.h
> -       $(WIDL) -DBOOL=WINBOOL -I$(srcdir)/include
> -I$(srcdir)/direct-x/include -Icrt -I$(srcdir)/crt -h -o $(srcdir)/$@ $<
> +       $(WIDL) -DBOOL=WINBOOL -I$(srcdir)/include
> -I$(srcdir)/direct-x/include -Icrt -I$(srcdir)/crt -h -o $@ $<
>
>
> The current code is indeed a hack, but it's intentional. Compiling with
> --with-widl is a maintainer-like mode and is supposed to change files in
> source directories.
>
> That said, --with-widl works best if ran in config where
> srcdir=builddir, because widl-generated comments look better then. We
> could change the way it works like you propose (so that if someone
> really wants widl-maintainer more, he is expected to build from srcdir),
> but for that I think we'd need a warning in configure when someone uses
> --with-widl and srcdir!=builddir.
>
> Thanks,
> Jacek
>
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