* David Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thom May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: connect to listener warning message
> 
> 
> > * David Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > "David Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Jeff,
> > > > >
> > > > > > of course :) (I also remember your other problem where I suggested
> > > > > > running buildconf to pick up local libtool... what happened with
> > > > > > that?)
> > > > >
> > > > > Just got around to trying that (long queue, what with a brand new
> Apache
> > > 2
> > > > > to play with :-). Yes, the latest libtool installed 1.4.2 and the
> > > tarball
> > > > > builds without a hitch. I saw a thread in dev@ talking about trying
> to
> > > > > resync with the public lib tool. Hopefully the libtool sync will
> make it
> > > > > into the next spin of the tarball.
> > >
> > > Found another oddity.... not sure where this one comes from, but doing
> the
> > > ./buildconf results in a srclib/apr/Makefile with top_builddir set to
> > > nothing, which causes an error during install. Part of what I don't
> > > understand is that without running ./buildconf, the build results in
> > > top_builddir matching top_srcdir which means the the failing line in the
> > > install phase is going to copy the header files that the previous line
> just
> > > copied........
> >
> > Sander and I were looking at this earlier today - it's yet another
> autoconf
> > 2.53 "feature". Sander posted a diff to IRC that appears to be a
> workaround
> > for the problem, but the real fix appears to be along the lines of what
> you
> > suggest - we should always use the builddir unless it is unset. It should
> > eliminate a lot of redundancy, and be a bit more fail proof too.
> > Thoughts?
> 
> If you are suggesting adding a simple check to the Makefile to test if
> top_builddir is set before doing the copy, then I am fine with that. If you
> are suggesting dropping the top_srcdir copy and only doing hte top_builddir
> copy, then there may be an issue.... as that is currently where I am getting
> at least one copy of the include files installed into the output tree
> 
> Dave
Just the check, yes.
-Thom

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