Sept. 5, 2001
4:17 a.m.
"BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
BG> This new patch makes a temporary build/ top-level subdirectory
BG> when ./configure is run, and uses a bit of autoconf magic to
BG> macro-expand bin/newlist to build/bin/newlist. This works
BG> beautifully; the Makefile.in files in various directories just
BG> had to be modified to use ../build/bin (etc.) as a prefix to
BG> the filename to be installed on a make install.Hi Ben, thanks this seems much more acceptable, although I'll reserve final judgement until I actually apply the patch and give it a drive <wink>. If it pans out, I'll include it in the next alpha -- hopefully this weekend -- and if not, I'll definitely give you feedback about it.
Thanks, -Barry