Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/libsvn_wc/tests Makefile.am

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:15:11AM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
> brane@tigris.org wrote:
>...
> > +dnl Set module library lists for libtool ---------------------
> > +
> > +SVN_APR_LIBS="`pwd`/apr/libapr.la $LIBTOOL_LIBS"
> > +AC_SUBST(SVN_APR_LIBS)
> > +
> > +
> > dnl Check for programs ---------------------
>
> Just in case somebody is wondering why I used `pwd`/apr instead of
> $srcdir/apr: I did that to support building outside the source tree. I
> know we don't support that right now, but it'll be one less thing to fix.

Well, actually it *will* be one thing to fix. I've got to imagine that we'll
be using the standard "builddir" "srcdir" names, so we'd probably end up
replacing the pwd with a macro.

But hey... no matter.

Note that Mo DeJong has done some work to support outside builds. The latest
Neon includes some of his patches.

> I'm wondering if I should make a similar change for neon and expat-lite.
> Thoughts? Is neon smart enought to pull the headers from $srcdir and the
> library from $objdir (I guess not)?

Neon should support it. Maybe not in the 0.8.1 that we're using, but
certainly the 0.9.x release (IOW, we may need to upgrade). Expat-lite would
definitely need it, although the "right" answer is to switch to using the
latest Expat (1.95) release directly and toss expat-lite.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/