On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> 2009/10/28 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>: > >>> I'd also like to make a comment. It may be useful if you split up the >>> build >>> into subdirectories by component. When I extracted the tarball, there >>> were >>> 57 files/directories in the top of the build tree. After configure it >>> was >>> 64. So far so good. However, after make it was over 2400 files, many >>> with >>> very long file names. This makes it almost impossible to navigate form >>> the >>> command line, even on a very big screen. If you split it up, you could >>> also >>> shorten the filenames. I would think that would be an advantage to >>> encourage programmers to read the code and contribute to the project. >>> >> >> I guess it's meant to be used like this: >> >> tar -jxvf grub-version.tar.bz2 >> cd grub-version >> mkdir build >> cd build >> ../configure./configure --prefix=/usr \ > > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --disable-largefile \ > --disable-grub-emu \ > --disable-grub-emu-usb \ > --disable-grub-fstest \ > --disable-efiemu --prefix=/some_prefix --options >> >> make >> make install > > Yes, that is exactly what we are doing. Right now the configure line is
Not "exactly", and the difference is important.Michal suggested running "../configure" with a double-dot meaning parent directory. Your line has only a single dot, meaning current directory. As a result your files are all mixed together instead of separated as intended. > > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > --disable-largefile \ > --disable-grub-emu \ > --disable-grub-emu-usb \ > --disable-grub-fstest \ > --disable-efiemu _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
