Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] output directory names

[Mark Brand]

> Note that the SQLite project fixed this issue recently, naming the
> output directory "sqlite-autoconf-3070400". I just fixed our sqlite.mk
> accordingly:
>
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/a0fbbcfafe46

Thanks for pointing that out. Perhaps this was a silent response to my 
inquiry on the sqlite mailing list. I have expressed my thanks.

> > I forgot to mention the "easy" option of just using whatever directory
> > appears in "tmp-sqlite" after unpacking ("cd *").
> >
> > There is also the complication of archives whose files are not contained
> > in a new output directory.
> I agree that this would be a nice solution, despite that special case.
> However, there's currently no pressing need to do that as SQLite fixed
> their issue.
>
> However, feel free to start working on that if you're still motivated
> to do that. I'd be glad to help out with Make macros, but the most
> work would be to get rid of all uses of $(PKG)_SUBDIR in all src/*.mk
> files.

It's not a pressing issue, but it would be a welcome simplification to 
get rid of $(PKG)_SUBDIR.

Was there originally a compelling reason for the strict treatment of the 
subdir?

Regarding the references, my quick grepping of $(PKG)_SUBDIR shows that 
it's mostly used to construct $(PKG)_FILE and more rarely $(PKG)_URL. 
These seem easy to replace.

The exotic cases are gcc, glib, openexr, postgresql and wxwidgets, some 
of which even have references to other packages' $(PKG)_SUBDIR. 
Alternative tricks would have to be found.

Mark