Re: patch out of source builds

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 10:19:56AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This patch makes the test suite look for config.status in the -make_path
> > directory to allow testing out of source builds.
> 
> Thanks, but I don't think relying on config_status is good enough,
> because some builds don't have it.  For example, what happens when
> Make is built using build.sh?  And on MS-Windows the _only_ supported
> build method is by using a script similar to build.sh.

run_make_tests.pl unconditionally reads config.status from a specific location.
If gmake is built out of source this reading fails.  The patch then looks for
config.status in the -make_path directory.  This will help if you have
config.status in the -make_path directory.  If you don't have config.status in
-make_path directory this won't help and won't hurt.  If you don't have
config.status in -make_path directory it will behave the same as today.



regards, Dmitry