On 23/12/14 21:54, Bruce Korb wrote: > On 12/23/14 09:07, Aldy Hernandez wrote: >> Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> On 12/21/2014 02:38 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: >>>> Shouldn't the configure step have made config.h? >>> >>> It's probably because you are building in srcdir. That is not >>> supported. >> >> Hmm, newbies run into this often enough that I wonder whether we should >> just error out from the configuration stage. > > Yeah, we newbies who've only been fiddling it for 15 years. > I think it a good idea. My script that does the configure & build > is much newer though. It's only about 5 years old. > > Good error messages are really, really, really important -- > especially if you are changing requirements. Someone from > the distant dusty past may wind up with a stubbed toe. > > Oh, another point: > > Some projects cannot be built with separate source/build directories > and some projects (like yours) cannot be build without separation. > So the real question is, Does it really save enough development effort > that it is not worth doing the "you can build it either way" way?
We'd have to test it and we'd have to test building in a separate subdir. That's a big testing effort, and it's a question of whether it's a good way for us to spend our own time and that of our build boxes. I say no, and agree that Aldy has a good point. Andrew.
