From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:44:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building GIT in a different directory from the source directory
Message-ID: <elc84p$4cs$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <elc6j2$vej$1@sea.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> From 105d331aee95c0cf3610ac0d2fd4aa7688bd5211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

This line is not needed.

> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:07:56 +0100
> 
> GIT can now be built in a separate builddirectory. This is done as
> follows:
> 
>   mkdir build
>   cd build
>   $my_git_dir/configure
>   make

Perhaps we should add this to INSTALL file, or to comments in either
Makefile, or configure.ac?

> In this case, configure creates an empty directory tree based on the
> source directory, and wraps Makefiles from source directory in the
> build directory.  The rest of the functionality is delivered with the
> VPATH feature of Make.
> 
> To make this work the Makefile should not mention ./ explicitly in
> rules, but rather use $< and $^ to automatically look in the source
> dir too.
> 
> perl/Makefile and perl/Makefile.PL need special massaging because perl
> is not VPATH aware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>

Very nicely written commit message. Good work.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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