Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 22439: /trunk/epan/wslua/ /trunk/epan/wslua/: Makefile.a

["Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was taking a look at the script and it reads whatever files are
given as arguments and creates register_wslua.c and declare_wslua.h in
the directory where it is run, which should be OK, isn't it?

Which
On 8/3/07, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:10:54PM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> > But I do not understand what's exactly wrong with that script, and
> > how, in your view, it should be working.
>
> Guy already explained what is wrong. The motivation behind this:
> When doing an out-of-tree build (if you want to test, do a make
> distclean, run autogen.sh, then create a new directory, e.g. build,
> cd build and call configure from that working directory).
> The problem is, that the script gets called with a set of filenames
> that it needs for input but can't find them, as the current directory
> is in the build tree. changing the directory to the source tree doesn't
> help because the output files need to be created in the build tree.
>
> Gerald: How about changing one of the buildbots to do out-of-tree builds?
>
>  ciao
>      Joerg
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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