Re: 1.3.0-rc3 tarballs up for testing/signing

Max Bowsher <maxb1@ukf.net> writes:

> This could have been very usefully used in the Subversion build system.
> Instead, we have to put up with copying files from srcdir to objdir, in
> a VPATH setup.

As someone who has built fairly complex build systems that
support srcdir != blddir using standard make, i'm skeptical.
I've never had to do that.

Though there is usually a better way to construct your rules, at
the bare minimum this transform always works:

  foo: ${srcdir}/bar ${srcdir}/baz ${srcdir}/quux
       foocmd $@ $<

to

  FOOSRC=${srcdir}/bar ${srcdir}/baz ${srcdir}/quux
  foo: ${FOOSRC}
       foocmd $@ ${FOOSRC}

Maybe you could point me to the relevant parts of our Makefile?

--
Eric Gillespie <*> epg@pretzelnet.org

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Received on Tue Nov 22 17:57:37 2005