Enable `mkdir build; cd build; ../configure` to run entirely in the build
directory, with generated config landing there instead of in the source
tree. This is the autoconf-layer groundwork for a full VPATH build; the
make layer (defs.mak/rules.mak VPATH support, per-dir orchestration) is
still to come, so an out-of-tree `make` is not yet expected to work.
Changes:
* configure (wrapper): run the generated config.status in the *current*
directory with --srcdir pointing back at the source tree (instead of
`cd scripts`), so outputs land in the build dir. Uses an absolute
basedir so any build-dir location works, not just a subdir of srcdir.
* scripts/configure.in:
- AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(.) -> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(scripts). Once srcdir
resolves to the true top (scripts' parent, where rules.mak lives),
autoconf searches for install-sh/config.sub/... relative to srcdir;
"." pointed at the wrong place and out-of-tree configure died with
"cannot find install-sh".
- Name the .in templates explicitly
(defs.mak:scripts/defs.mak.in, scripts/makedbh:scripts/makedbh.in)
so config.status finds them from a separate build dir. defs.mak is
written to the build top; makedbh under build/scripts/ to match
${SCRIPTS}/makedbh.
- Drop the trailing `cp defs.mak ..`; defs.mak is now generated in the
build top directly, and from a build dir the copy would clobber the
source tree's defs.mak.
* scripts/configure: regenerated with autoconf 2.69.
Verified: out-of-tree `../configure` completes rc=0, writes defs.mak /
scripts/makedbh / config.status into the build dir, records
srcdir=<source top>, and leaves the source tree's tracked files and
generated defs.mak/makedbh untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The top-level ./configure wrapper did `cd scripts`, which is resolved
against the caller's current directory. Running it from anywhere other
than the source top (e.g. `mkdir build; cd build; ../configure`) failed
immediately with:
../configure: line 12: cd: scripts: No such file or directory
Derive the script's own location via `dirname "$0"` and cd into
"${basedir}/scripts" so the wrapper works regardless of CWD.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Darryl L. Miles
Johan Euphrosine
Tim Edwards