[Mono-dev] Running autogen.sh from outside of source tree?

[Chris Morgan]

Hi Zoltan.

No, I get that. The question is whether its possible to improve
autogen.sh to support running out of tree by adding some more $srcdir
entries, or whatever, at the appropriate locations.

Chris



On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Zoltan Varga <vargaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   autogen.sh needs to be run from the tree, its configure+make which can be
> run out-of-tree.
>
>             Zoltan
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm trying to build mono under Yocto. Recently (so I've heard) there
>> were some changes such that the autotools scripts are being run from
>> outside of the source tree.
>>
>> I presume this is something like:
>>
>> cd mono
>> mkdir monobuild
>> cd monobuild
>> ../autogen.sh
>>
>>
>> [cmorgan at localhost monobuild]$ ../autogen.sh
>> --prefix=/home/cmorgan/mono-prefix
>> grep: configure.in: No such file or directory
>> ../autogen.sh: line 125: mono/mini/Makefile.am: No such file or directory
>> ../autogen.sh: line 126: mono/metadata/Makefile.am: No such file or
>> directory
>> Running aclocal -I m4 -I .  ...
>> aclocal: error: 'configure.ac' is required
>>
>> **Error**: aclocal failed. This may mean that you have not
>> installed all of the packages you need, or you may need to
>> set ACLOCAL_FLAGS to include "-I $prefix/share/aclocal"
>> for the prefix where you installed the packages whose
>> macros were not found
>>
>>
>> This doesn't appear to work because several things in autogen.sh
>> assume that the files are present in the current working directory.
>> Some other steps however do use $srcdir.
>>
>> My question is whether it seems like a reasonable idea to correct
>> autogen.sh to remove the assumption that builddir == sourcedir. If so
>> then I'll go down this route and send a patch. If not then I'll use a
>> Yocto work around for projects that don't/can't support doing that.
>> I'm not big on papering over issues so I do prefer the first option
>> but I didn't want to start work if it turns out that it may be a
>> nearly impossible task.
>>
>> Chris
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