Re: Building outside the sourcetree

[Marco Gerards]

Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Here is a patch to make it possible to build l4-hurd outside the
> > sourcetree.
> 
> Ok, I put them in.  I still get some bogus error messages from
> AC_CONFIG_LINK when doing the configure, but the links are correctly created
> anyway.  Strange.

Yes, it happens here too, weird.  Can it be an automake bug, or don't
you have any idea about this?
 
> > I've included the changelog entries, are these required for future
> > l4-hurd patches?
> 
> hurd-l4.  Yes, they are now, for all directories with a ChangeLog file.  I
> was trying to do without, but too many people contribute (which is a good
> thing!), so it's worth to be careful about it, in particular because of
> legal issues!

Ok.  Are changelogs used for legal issues!? (I'm curious why and how)

> > Marcus, do you want me to send patches to l4-hurd next time or should
> > I use savannah?
> 
> This list should be fine, you can also send them to me personally.  Not
> Savannah, because I have not thought about how and what use I want to make
> of it for this.

Ok, I prefer the list.

Thanks,
Marco