Build and run in separate directory

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:

> --On February 8, 2006 9:45:40 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> 
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what SVN revision you're trying, but you can very well
>> /build/ gnucash in another build directory.  I admit that I haven't
>> tried running it out of a separate build directory.
>
> I think it may work ok if the build directory is a sibling of the 
> source directory.  However there is a problem in intl-scm/Makefile.am 
> if the build directory is not a sibling of the source directory.  In my 
> case I have some existing build tools that want the source directory at 
> /tools/gnucash-1.9/gnucash-1.9 and the build directory at 
> /tools/gnucash-1.9/build/darwin (one level deeper).  It builds a list 
> of SCM files in one directory and then tries to use the list in another 
> and the relative path names in the list are not valid.

In the distcheck the builddir is a a child of the source tree, not a
sibling.  In particular when I run distcheck I run it from
$HOME/src/gnucash-svn/test/ which is the svn checkout source tree,
$HOME/src/gnucash-svn/test/gnucash-1.9.0 gets created as the
distribution source tree, and then
$HOME/src/gnucash-svn/test/gnucash-1.9.0/_build is the build directory
building off of gnucash-1.9.0 sources.  This obviously works fine
because distcheck works.

> I also got lots of compile errors because it couldn't find qofla-dir.h 
> in ${top_builddir}/lib/libqof/qof until I changed QOF_CFLAGS in 
> configure.in to search that directory.  This might have been fixed in 
> svn or it might be another artifact of my unusual setup.

Hmm...  I have no idea why this would work in distcheck either if it
were a "real" issue.  I would assume that distcheck would fail to find
this header as well.

You didn't specify which SVN revision you tried.  Also, could you try
the 1.9.0 test release?

> All of the other changes were related to running, not building.  I 
> don't really care about these patches much.  If you want them, fine. 
> If you don't, so be it.  I had them so I decided to send them.

Thanks.  I guess there IS precedent for this elsewhere in the code
already, so...  I'll take a look.

-derek
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