From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7129 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Patch to allow configure out-with source directory Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20150304164114.GJ23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <54F6CF93.7010206@duskborn.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425487296 10654 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2015 16:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7142-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Mar 04 17:41:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTCMY-0003xe-Da for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 30467 invoked by uid 550); 4 Mar 2015 16:41:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 30426 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2015 16:41:27 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54F6CF93.7010206@duskborn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7129 Archived-At: 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