Re: building for different platforms with same source

["Brian J. Murrell" <gnome-list-in interlinx bc ca>]

from the quill of Sam Vilain <sam@hydro.gen.nz> on scroll
<m3ogn8p45h.fsf@firewall.innsmouth>
> 
> All packages should support having a seperate build dir and source
> dir:
> 
> mkdir platformdir
> cd platformdir
> ../configure

Yup.  Normally with "configure" packages I do build in platformdirs
however gnome packages like to be configured with autogen.sh.  The
problem essentially is that the various autogen.sh's are not consistent
with their ability to be told where the platformdirs are.

b.



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