Re: building for different platforms with same source

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

"Brian J. Murrell" <gnome-list-in@interlinx.bc.ca> writes:

> Is there a consistant supported method for specifying the object
> directory for all of the various gnome packages?  At one location, I am
> up to 3 platforms now (Solaris 2.6, Sparc Linux, Corel Netwinder) and
> would really like to be able to build multiple objects from the same
> source base.
> Ideas?

All packages should support having a seperate build dir and source dir:

mkdir platformdir
cd platformdir
../configure

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