Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 12, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 08/12/2012 09:46 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 12-Aug-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> | You are correct, I've been building in my source tree.  How do I set up a 
>> build tree?
>> 
>> Create a new directory and cd to it.  Then run
>> 
>>   /your/octave/source/directory/configure
>> 
>> in your build directory.  That will create all the subdirectories and
>> Makefiles in the build tree.
>> 
>> jwe
>> 
> 
> Might there be a good reason to add an option for the build directory to the 
> configure script?  Patterning after this:
> 
> Fine tuning of the installation directories:
>  --bindir=DIR            user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
>  --sbindir=DIR           system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
> 
> for example:
> 
> --builddir=DIR           object and libraries
> 
> It's essentially the same as doing a
> 
> mkdir ../DIR
> cd ../DIR
> ../octave/configure OTHER_OPTS
> cd ../octave
> 
> Or something like that.  By having this as an option, it lets people know 
> that a separate build directory can be done, and it might be useful down the 
> road to someone who wants to build a generic script or something.
> 
> Dan

Sounds good to me!

Ben