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[jira] [Commented] (XERCESC-1689) CLONE -won't build from outside of source tree

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1689?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15470117#comment-15470117 ] 

mariakatosvich commented on XERCESC-1689:
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I agree.

This stems from the fact that Xerces-C is only "sort-of" based on autoconf. If
it used full automake/autoconf we'd get this for free.

We could patch this particular problem, or we could also make the switch to
complete support of automake/autoconf and get rid of runConfigure.
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> CLONE -won't build from outside of source tree
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: XERCESC-1689
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1689
>             Project: Xerces-C++
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Build
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.1
>         Environment: Operating System: Solaris
> Platform: Sun
>            Reporter: Guillaume CERNIER
>
> It's fairly standard practice to be able to build an autoconf-based package
> outside of its source tree (which is useful, if you like to keep the untarred
> source tree lying around, in pristine condition, or if you're building for
> multiple platforms and want to preserve the build for each) by running configure
> from the build directory.  For example, if I have package foo untarred in
> /usr/local/kits/foo/ and want to build it in /usr/local/builds/foo/, I'd run
> /usr/local/kits/foo/configure from /usr/local/builds/foo/.  If that doesn't
> work, there's actually an option for configure '--srcdir=DIR' that's supposed to
> do the trick.
> So, Xerces-C++ should provide some mechanism for supporting builds from outside
> the source directory (meaning that all paths in the makefiles must be in terms
> of '$(SRCDIR)', and runConfigure should check $0, to see where it lives, rather
> than assuming this to be '.', so it can try to run configure from the right
> place).



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