Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/13/2012 12:16 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 08/12/2012 04:06 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 12-Aug-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> > |> 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

Follow up.  What I've written above (i.e., mkdir, cd, configure, cd) is 
in fact the VPATH, as far as Autoconf sees it.  The "--builddir" option 
would simply be "syntactic sugar".

Dan