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Re: [PATCH] Don't infloop upon "make dist".


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't infloop upon "make dist".
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:10:58 +0100

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:06:04PM CET:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ...
>> > The patch is ok with this change:  The _curr-ver computation needs to be
>> >
>> >     _curr-ver := $(shell cd $(srcdir) && ./build-aux/git-version-gen \
>> >                    .tarball-version)
>> >
>> > because otherwise it won't work with a VPATH build.
>>
>> Good catch.
>> However, a slight correction:
>>
>>     ... otherwise it won't work with an *out-of-tree* VPATH build.
>>
>> I did test, of course, just not with an out-of-tree build dir.
>> As is, it works fine for an in-tree VPATH build.
>
> What is an in-tree VPATH build?  I so far used "VPATH build" always as
> synonym for "out-of-tree build".

One where build_dir is a subdirectory of srcdir:

  mkdir junk && cd junk && ../configure && make && ...




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