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Re: RFC: add a dummy "configure" to the packaging templates
- From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <1 at pervalidus dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:28:06 -0300 (BRT)
- Subject: Re: RFC: add a dummy "configure" to the packaging templates
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0403311656100.10235@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Many a time I've come across a project that only has a Makefile, with no
> configure. To allow those projects to build outside of the source
> directory, I usually had to either change the build script's conf() rule
> or add a dummy configure script to copy all the files to the build
> directory. I'm thinking of creating one generic version of such a script,
> and putting it in CVS with the packaging templates. Comments?
What does this buy is ? Why not just use lndir ?
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