Open mirabilos opened 4 years ago
Even if the configure
script worked, make
would fail (because the Makefile is still in the source tree, it doesn't get copied over). Are out-of-tree builds something that is in general supported by make-based build systems?
Yes, e.g. GNU autoconf copies the Makefile (with substitutions) and everything else needed, and in general just points to the source directory.
I'm not talking about autotools, I'm talking about other software using raw Makefiles like we do.
Simon Ser dixit:
I'm not talking about autotools, I'm talking about other software using raw Makefiles like we do.
It’s not about the Makefile, it’s about the configure script.
… fails with…
Trying to debug the hard-to-debug (comparatively) script, it turns out it expects the
libmrsh.gnu.sym
file in the cwd.