[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #26966 (project grub): Which files? In Debian we build the packages always with a seperate build directory and everything works still fine. I just tried it out again with current SVN rev 2425 and it worked fine.

[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Peter
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #26966 (project grub): By several files I meant just the configure.ac or whatever (its been a while, I don't remember exactly) needs that for several files that are in the root directory of the source. This was on a debian system, but I might be using testing rather

[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Peter
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #26966 (project grub): It probably wasn't configure.ac, that was the other issue... maybe it was a Makefile.am or two. Sorry. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26966

[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #26966 (project grub): Do you maybe mean running ./autogen.sh outside of source dir? That probable won't work. Makefile.am isn't used. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26966

[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Peter
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #26966 (project grub): You know, I think I may have assumed that all the bugs were for grub2, and I specified the release on a grub bug with svn grub, whereas this I just said svn. But its been a while and I forgot which this was for. I think it was the Makefile.in in

[bug #26966] building in separate directory fails

2009-07-19 Thread Peter
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #26966 (project grub): Okay. I found it exactly. If you do mkdir grub-build cd grub-build ../trunk/grub2/configure make Or something like that, then there's a much of include errors because trunk/grub2/ has header files where as path only has -I($srcdir)/include. If