Re: objdir == srcdir is completely unsupported

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Well, given recent discussions here, concerning Phil's patch which was
> later reverted, I'm still confused.

Here is the history as I can recall it:

Loren proposed the documentation patch.  It was approved and committed to
mainline and branch.

I pointed out that many moons ago, there had been some suggestions for
turning in-srcdir builds into a separate objdir, and so I threw out a
suggested patch.

IIRC, Mark recommended to Loren that the doc patch be kept on the branch and
reverted on the trunk, and recommended to me that the issue be revisited
after the 3.1 release (which was coming up soon).  I used to have all
the email from the above, until I did my semiregular mailbox weeding,
so I can't point you to a place in the archives.

More recently, I proposed and Mark approved the srcdir translating patch.
DJ pointed out that he had in fact formally rejected that patch, instead of
simply not liking it.  The patch was reverted on both trunk and branch,
even though srcdir builds were broken in the 3.1 release.  DJ then
applied a patch to both trunk and branch which he said seems to fix it.
(As an aside, the fix seems opaque to me, but apparently it's some kind
of autoconf thing not happening in the right order, or something.)

Loren's doc patch remains on the branch.

This brings us to the present.


Phil

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