Warn them that compiling in a different directory than the source will

not currently work.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk@665 72102866-910b-0410-8b05-ffd578937521
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Andrew McCallum 1995-11-06 17:47:40 +00:00
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@ -49,16 +49,8 @@ output redirected to @samp{/dev/null}; for example:
./configure >/dev/null
@end smallexample
To compile the package in a different directory from the one containing
the source code, you must use a version of make that supports the VPATH
variable, such as GNU make. @samp{cd} to the directory where you want
the object files and executables to go and run @samp{configure}.
@samp{configure} automatically checks for the source code in the
directory that @samp{configure} is in and in @samp{..}. If for some
reason @samp{configure} is not in the source code directory that you are
configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source code. In
that case, run @samp{configure} with the option @samp{--srcdir=DIR},
where DIR is the directory that contains the source code.
The libobjects makefiles do not currently support compiling the package
in a different directory from the one containing the source code.
By default, @samp{make install} will install the package's files in
/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify