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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Patch to allow configure out-with source directory
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:41:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150304164114.GJ23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F6CF93.7010206@duskborn.com>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:25:39AM +0000, Neil Henning wrote:
> Hey (new to the list),
> 
> Below is a patch to allow the running of configure out-with the
> source directory (basically just looks up the path to the configure
> script, and then bases the -I includes in the check steps on this
> path).
> 
> Any questions please get in touch,

Could you clarify what problem it solves? I don't think this is
anywhere near sufficient to support out-of-tree builds. That's a
difficult problem which nsz worked on in the past but didn't complete
because we kept running into corner cases that broke.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-04 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04  9:25 Neil Henning
2015-03-04 16:41 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2015-03-04 16:52   ` Neil Henning
2015-03-04 16:52   ` Laurent Bercot
2015-03-04 17:45     ` Rich Felker
2015-03-04 23:53       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2015-03-05  0:02         ` Laurent Bercot

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