Re: One more ./Configure issue

["Karim Belabas" <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

* Jeroen Demeyer [2008-10-31 12:33]:
> the following is an issue which I encountered while doing 32bit/64bit 
> cross-compiling on a x86_64 GNU/Linux machine:
>
> When using linux32 ./Configure, this setting will be forgotten during make. 
>  Once I have Configured PARI/GP as 32-bits it should remember that during 
> make instead of checking again (the culprit is the @dir=`config/objdir`; 
> line in the top-level Makefile).

This is intentional.

(1) To bypass it, just 

  cd <your-objdir> && make <your-target>.

(2) The reason for guessing $dir "at runtime" instead of hardcoding it at
Configure time is that my home directory is mounted identically on a
large number of different architectures. I can then use the very same
sources simultaneously on each of these architecture. And just type
'Configure' or 'make <my-target>' from my main workdir without bothering
to go to a specific directory first. This does simplify testing immensely
( and I'd rather include everything in a Makefile than depend on
external scripts/aliases )

I understand it makes cross-compilation slightly more difficult.
But I'd rather simplify development and testing than cross-compilation.

Sorry,

    K.B.

> PS: I remind you again about GNU autoconf+automake, which does not have 
> this issue.

In this case, "solving" this issue (i.e. killing (2) above) would introduce
a new hassle (for me, and I suspect for a number of other users), without
solving any actual problem.

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