[Ecls-list] configure and make dependencies

[Raymond Toy]

Daniel Herring wrote:
>
> Properly tuned, autotools projects allow you to build in any directory. 
> Such a session usually looks like
>
>   
>> cd ecl
>> mkdir build-linux
>> cd build-linux
>> ../configure --prefix=...
>> make
>>     
>
> Unfortunately ecl (and from your description probably xemacs and clisp) 
> try to specify the build dir from within the configure script...  ECL 
> currently bombs on VPATH builds like above.
>
>   
xemacs behaves exactly as you describe.  I've never tried clisp that way 
since the instructions say to give a directory to configure.
>   
>> Is that the way it's supposed to work?  I know it's kind of hard to get
>> all the dependencies right, but it sure is nice when it works.
>>     
>
> All's not well.  Most ecl makefiles are generated by automake (which 
> automates dependency tracking), but these ones aren't.  Would someone like 
> help with a conversion?
>
>   
I can help a bit.  I'm not really familiar with ecl, though.

Ray