This is a feature of the Unix build system of mozilla.
Your source tree can live in one place, then you create a directory where you
want the binaries to live. This is only useful if you want to have the same
source tree build two separate builds. One optimized, one debugged, another
with a different compiler.
Most people just run the configure script in the mozilla directory. That would
be fine, but then you can't do another build using that same source tree.
I tend to create the directories:
mozilla/opt-buil
mozilla/debug-build
So that I can have a debug and optimized build from the same source tree.
Ian Smith wrote:
> Javier Delgadillo wrote:
>
> > 4) In the directory where you want the binaries tree to exist:
> > <path to source>/configure [--disable-debug --enable-optimize]
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is a reasonable default for this
> directory? Where would it be for an official build?
>
> Regards,
>
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