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Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement

From: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:02:09 +0100

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:08:19 +0000
Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:

> several software packages reccommend creating a build directory first and
> to
> do something like
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure
> make
Yeah, spells like gcc or glibc (where this is recommended)
do pretty much this in PRE_BUILD.
Is it really the majority of packages that need/recommend this
or would the majority of packages fail with this?
So Far,
Karsten

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[SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Treeve Jelbert, 02/20/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Andrew "ruskie" Levstik, 02/20/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Karsten Behrmann, 02/20/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Jason Flatt, 02/20/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Seth Alan Woolley, 02/20/2005
  - Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Andrew, 02/20/2005
- Re: [SM-Discuss] possible enhancement, Arwed von Merkatz, 02/20/2005