Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > > build targets, it should still build stuff. > > > > It doesn't make sense to have the build target depend on build-a and > > build-b because one of these builds would overwrite the other. > > The only sane way to make the build target do something useful would > > be for it to sequentially: build-a, install-a, build-b, install-b > > > > Is the packaging manual wrong? > > No, but you are probably not aware of the possibility to build in a > subdirectory. GNU make supports a VPATH variable, which does that. Please > refer to my other mail, where I spelled this out in detail. > > mkdir build-a > cd build-a > ../configure --with-gnome > make > > works fine. This is the reason why you can have two builds at the same time > without overwriting each other.
I see now. This seems to work. Thanks again. -Mitch
