Hallo! On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:14:39 +1000, Carl Worth <cwo...@cworth.org> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:28:08 +0100, Thomas Schwinge <tho...@schwinge.name> > wrote: > > Still, my point holds that (unless someone is willing to spend time on > > this, of course) we shouldn't try to replicate the Autotools, but instead > > keep our system as simple as it currently is, and thus just have it fail > > if configured outside of the source tree. > > Oh, I agree that if we don't support this then we should give the user a > nice error message. But I think it will actually be very easy to add > support for this. (And at this point, I think the notmuch build system > is something that other projects could emulate if they want. I don't > think it's too crazt).
Is the testsuite also easy to convert to VPATH style builds? (I don't know, but would expect some difficulties.) And, another thing I just noticed: I had the source tree configured with --prefix=[something]. Now I updated the sources, re-ran make, and saw this: $ make Note: Calling ./configure with no command-line arguments. This is often fine, but if you want to specify any arguments (such as an alternate prefix into which to install), call ./configure explicitly and then make again. See "./configure --help" for more details. ./configure Welcome to Notmuch, a system for indexing, searching and tagging your email. [...] My --prefix=[something] is gone. (At least the build system warns about this.) But it's another issue that other build systems already have solved. (And, I probably wouldn't have expected that to do the right thing if the configure script / build system wouldn't try to be like GNU Autoconf.) Grüße, Thomas
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