On 2010-11-21 12:52 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-11-20 23:13 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:23:03PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>> >>>> Actually rpath is not a problem when running test/configure, but I could >>>> not get it to use the just compiled-but-not-yet-installed ncurses >>>> library. Because it is built out of tree, the libs are not adjacent to >>>> the headers which is expected by the "--with-curses-dir" configure >>>> option. >>>> >>>> It would be good if this could be made to work, because the simplistic >>>> solution of just copying everything from obj/test has the drawback that >>>> cruft files like "Makefile" creep into the binary package. And we can >>>> only run "make install" in the test directory if we had run >>>> test/configure before, see the recent discussion on bug-ncurses. >>> >>> I've just implemented the latter, for today. >> >> Thanks, this seems to work. However, I just discovered the next missing >> piece in the puzzle -- the tests themselves fail to build out of tree: > > sorry - I keep overlooking that aspect (most of my builds are in-tree, > just because they're simpler to manage). Will fix...
Was the VPATH change to test/Makefile.in you made yesterday supposed to fix the problem? It does not seem to help. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org