Build and run in separate directory

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Feb 17 15:40:59 EST 2006


Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:

> If you try to build gnucash in a directory other than the source 
> directory you get a couple of build errors.  If you try to run from 
> that directory, it doesn't work quite right either.  It is probably 
> better to use an lndir directory for building, but if you don't want to 
> do this, the attached patch fixes some of the problems related to 
> building and running in a separate directory.  It still uses some 
> things from the install tree when running from the build directory, and 
> won't work right if you've never installed it, but these patches help 
> some.  I'm sending them here since I didn't think this was worth a bug 
> report.

FYI, I just rototilled the Makefiles to solve this problem, but
my changes are going to conflict with your patches.  But could you
pull down r13281 and verify that it works for you, please?

Thanks!

-derek
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