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Re: Build directory option for configure script
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: Build directory option for configure script |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:59:31 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> writes, proposing a new
"configure" option:
> it might be something like:
>
> --builddir=DIR object and libraries
>
> which is essentially the same as doing:
>
> mkdir ../DIR
> cd ../DIR
> ../<projname>/configure OTHER_OPTS
> cd ../<projname>
Following the "configure", the next step will be to run "make".
To do that, the user will need to "cd" into the new directory.
So in a common workflow, this will save only one line of typing,
where:
mkdir DIR
cd DIR
../configure
make
becomes
./configure --builddir=DIR
cd DIR
make
To me, the benefit seems questionable, especially since DIR is
repeated the same number of times in each case, and "mkdir" is
shorter than "--builddir".
(I put my build directories below the source directory, not as
siblings of the source.)