[plt-dev] in-place build directory (was re: build error with svn 14677)

Sorry for dredging up an old thread, but I'm just back from
holidays and catching up on the list...

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:20:00PM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On May  1, John Clements wrote:
> > So what? Does it matter if everyone creates a build directory?
> 
> It only matters in being more complicated than it could be.  You only
> need a brief look at Matthew's version of the file to know that
> 
>   ./configure; make; make install
> 
> should work as expected, and I think that it is desirable to keep this
> property.  (But just to clarify, the README file is something that
> Matthew writes and maintains, so I don't want to commit a change that
> I'm not willing to defend personally.)

The FreeBSD port of plt-scheme goes to the additional effort of
doing the mkdir src/build; cd build; ../configure; ... steps
because back when I was creating it, build-in-place did *not*
work.  Something to do with tree-spanning paths in the xform
step that I never did get to the bottom of: making ports use a
separate build directory was much simpler.

If ./configure works now, that's really great, and I'll be happy
to simplify the port accordingly...  [I'm two releases behind,
now.  Sorry about that.  Will try to find time to catch up.]

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew