Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > From 105d331aee95c0cf3610ac0d2fd4aa7688bd5211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 This line is not needed. > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:07:56 +0100 > > GIT can now be built in a separate builddirectory. This is done as > follows: > > mkdir build > cd build > $my_git_dir/configure > make Perhaps we should add this to INSTALL file, or to comments in either Makefile, or configure.ac? > In this case, configure creates an empty directory tree based on the > source directory, and wraps Makefiles from source directory in the > build directory. The rest of the functionality is delivered with the > VPATH feature of Make. > > To make this work the Makefile should not mention ./ explicitly in > rules, but rather use $< and $^ to automatically look in the source > dir too. > > perl/Makefile and perl/Makefile.PL need special massaging because perl > is not VPATH aware. > > Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxx> Very nicely written commit message. Good work. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html