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Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: [patch] tar.1.19 changes needed for VMS so far.
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:59:49 +0000

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:56 AM, John E. Malmberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>  First I would need to find out what a VPATH build is.

A VPATH build is one where the sources and object files live in
different directories.   For example:

mkdir compile
tar zxf /tmp/blah.-1.0.tar.gz
cd compile
../blah-1.0/configure
make install

See also "info make --index-search=VPATH".

James.




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