Hello Autoconf,
The Octave maintainers had a discussion about adding an option to
"configure" for a build directory. The reason is that a lot of people
like running configure from a directory other than the source tree so
that 1) object files end up in a different directory that can easily be
recursively removed to start over, and 2) multiple configurations and
builds can be done (the analogy being a debug and non-debug menu
selection in some C/C++ developer suite).
It was suggested this might be a generic feature rather than an
Octave-added option. So please give me your thoughts on adding this
option to Autoconf. By having this as an option, it lets people know
that a separate build directory can be done, and it might be useful down
the road to someone who wants to build a generic script. Patterning
after this:
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
it might be something like:
--builddir=DIR object and libraries
which is essentially the same as doing:
mkdir ../DIR
cd ../DIR
../<projname>/configure OTHER_OPTS
cd ../<projname>
Or something like that.
Thanks,
Dan
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