Top Level Autoconfiscation Status

[Jeff Law]

In message <20020701161217.GA5117@doctormoo.dyndns.org>, Nathanael Nerode write
s:
 >On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:03:07AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
 >> In message <20020630221237.A2110@hollebeek.com>, Tim Hollebeek writes:
 >>  >> * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses absolute pathnames
 >>  >> for most directories which it puts into the Makefile.  This means you
 >>  >> can no longer 'configure', relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'
 >.
 >>  >> I doubt that this is important.
 >> I do this regularly -- especially on machines where configure is slow
 >> (hpux, aix, solaris).
 >I can figure out how to fix this. :-)  
"this" meaning slow configure or make relocation of the buildir work?

Typically I tar up a build tree, then un-tar it somewhere else, make a 
tweak or two and run some tests.


 [ install on different machine with different paths to directories ]
 >I can figure out how to fix this too.  The trick is doing it without
 >slowing 'make' down by approximately two orders of magnitude.  :-P
FWIW, this one is actually more important to the end users -- it's come
up several times with Red Hat's customers.  ie, they have a centralized
build machine.  Once the tools are built, they log into each developer
machine and run "make install".  The paths to the sources & build
directories are (of course) different on the developer machines vs the
centralized build machine.

jeff