Chet, thanks for the suggestion. i still wonder what's the objection to changing .gitignore?
using a separate directory to build, while i'm working on the sources, feels less convenient. On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 2/25/18 2:49 PM, don fong wrote: > > Chet, i'm not sure i understand your suggestion. > > > >> You don't have to build in the source directory. > > > > i don't see anything in the INSTALL or README files about building > outside > > the source dir. > > according to INSTALL, > > This is a standard feature of any autoconf-generated configure script, and > is not specific to bash. Make a directory, cd to it, run > "bash /path/to/srcdir/configure" and configure will make sure the right > paths end up in the generated Makefiles. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
