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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:08 am, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> several software packages reccommend creating a build directory first and
> to do something like
>
> mkdir build
> cd   build
> ../configure
> make

I must be totally misunderstanding you, 'cause I thought that was the way it 
was already done.

The source is extracted into /usr/src/$SPELL-$VERSION (usually) and the built 
in that directory.  If no custom build files (BUILD, INSTALL, etc.) are 
found, the following code is executed:

From /var/lib/sorcery/modules/libapi:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
## @Type API
## @See <@function 
var.lib.sorcery.modules.libgrimoire.html,real_default_build> for more 
details.
## Used if no BUILD script is found for a spell
## Default build for BUILD_API==1 is:
## <pre>
##  ./configure  --build=$BUILD        \
##               --prefix=/usr         \
##               --sysconfdir=/etc     \
##               --localstatedir=/var  \
##               $OPTS                 &&
##  make                               &&
##  prepare_install                    &&
##  make    install
## </pre>
## Default build for BUILD_API==2 is:
## <pre>
##  ./configure  --build=$BUILD        \
##               --prefix=/usr         \
##               --sysconfdir=/etc     \
##               --localstatedir=/var  \
##               $OPTS                 &&
##  make
## </pre>
##
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
function default_build () {
    debug "libapi" "default_build - $*"
    real_default_build "$@"
}


For BUILD_API 2, there are additional functions which complete the build 
process.


> in most cases configure accepts the standard options
>
> t would be useful if this situation could be handled by default_build
>
> mkdir build
> cd   build
> default_build BASE=../
>
> or even simply
>
> default_build BUILD_IN=builddir
>
> so that builddir was created automatically
>
> Thoughts?


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Jason Flatt
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