Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 22439: /trunk/epan/wslua/ /trunk/epan/wslua/: Makefile.am Makefile.common Makefile.nmake

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:11:28 +0200

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:10:54PM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> But I do not understand what's exactly wrong with that script, and
> how, in your view, it should be working.

Guy already explained what is wrong. The motivation behind this:
When doing an out-of-tree build (if you want to test, do a make
distclean, run autogen.sh, then create a new directory, e.g. build,
cd build and call configure from that working directory).
The problem is, that the script gets called with a set of filenames
that it needs for input but can't find them, as the current directory
is in the build tree. changing the directory to the source tree doesn't
help because the output files need to be created in the build tree.

Gerald: How about changing one of the buildbots to do out-of-tree builds?

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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