>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>> "Ray" == Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
Ray> I wanted to build xemacs b43 in a different directory to test out a
Ray> lesstif version.
Ray> I created a lesstif directory inside of xemacs-21.2.43. cd to that
Ray> directory and "configure --srcdir=.. <my other favorite
options> ". Configure works, but while running make, gcc fails to
Ray> compile lwlib.c because it can't find s/sol2.h and m/sparc.h.
Martin> Do you really have ".." on your PATH?
No, I don't, actually
Martin> Does "../configure <my other favorite options>" work?
Yes.
Ray> This used to work in b40 or so, I think.
Martin> Some software projects warn against making $builddir a subdir of
Martin> $srcdir. Of course, maintainers generally build with srcdir and
Martin> builddir completely separate.
Just tried that out now and it works. This is good enough for me.
Curiously, it did used to work a few betas ago, exactly as I said
above.
Oh, well.
Thanks,
Ray