On 27.02.2005, at 01:14, Sven Neumann wrote:
We would probably have to add this to all Makefile.am in the app subdirs then?!
Only to those containing sources which refer to automatically generated headers, about 3 or 4.
There are .cvsignore files that cover these files. Building in the srcdir is common practice and I don't see anything wrong with it.
Well, noone stops you from doing this but that's not clean or even superior.
Usually the srcdir != builddir only shows up when people are building packages.
Err, no. For one I really don't like having to backup wasted sources and bandwidth is not plenty here to refetch from scratch or some random point in the past.
Second, many people (including me) like to build for several architectures from one sourcebase. In case of GIMP it's only four for me (i386, x86_64, ppc linux, ppc OS X) but there are others where I do some more (ARM linux, mipsel linux, ppc linux uclibc, mipsel linux uclibc, ARM linux uclibc) and in case of compilers even crosscompilers and stuff. It's really hard to imagine having to clone something like the gcc sources several times to build in the source directory, leave alone keeping all of them up-to-date....
Building packages is one possible use for this, but since typically at least the sources and the closer environment are rebuilt per try it doesn't matter whether one builts in the source or not; what matters more there is DESTDIR capability....
There are checks for these tools in autogen.sh and you are supposed to run this (and you are supposed to read HACKING even if you think you don't need autogen.sh).
Of course I ran autogen.sh, however I did *not* run it per target as this makes the whole point of seperating srcdir and objdir moot...
Especially for the latter it's really annoying that I can get through configure just fine but in menus/ the Makefile will bail out because xsltproc is desperately needed, so I need to install it and rerun configure to get rid of the problem; not the finest English...
The tarball can be built w/o these tools and we don't want it to depend on them. So it would be wrong to move these checks into configure. Our english is actually rather carefully chosen...
So what do I have to do to make the sources self-contained?
Servus,
Daniel
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