and configure substitutions across build makefiles is not used at all.
Furthermore, the make system runs with a current directory equal to the
-source directory irregardless of the destination directory. This means
+source directory regardless of the destination directory. This means
#include "" and #include <> work as expected and more importantly
running 'make' in the source directory will work as expected. The
environment variable or make parameter 'BUILD' sets the build directory.
The make system also performs dependency generation on the fly as the
compiler runs. This is extremely fast and accurate. There is however
-one failure condition that occures when a header file is erased. In
+one failure condition that occurs when a header file is erased. In
this case you should run make clean to purge the .o and .d files to
rebuild.
-The final significant deviation from normal make practicies is
-in how the build directory is managed. It is not mearly a mirror of
+The final significant deviation from normal make practices is
+in how the build directory is managed. It is not nearly a mirror of
the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner
bin/
methods/
apt-pkg/
obj/
apt-pkg/
- cmndline/
+ cmdline/
[...]
Only .o and .d files are placed in the obj/ subdirectory. The final compiled
binaries are placed in bin, published headers for inter-component linking
are placed in include/ and documentation is generated into doc/. This means
-all runnable programs are within the bin/ directory, a huge benifit for
+all runnable programs are within the bin/ directory, a huge benefit for
debugging inter-program relationships. The .so files are also placed in
bin/ for simplicity.
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Straight out of CVS you have to initialize autoconf. This requires
automake (I really don't know why) and autoconf and requires doing
- aclocal -I buidlib
+ aclocal -I buildlib
autoconf
-[Altertatively you can run make startup in the top level build dir]
+[Alternatively you can run make startup in the top level build dir]
Autoconf is configured to do some basic system probes for optional and
required functionality and generate an environment.mak and include/config.h
linking it in. To the fullest extent possible the source code should conform
to standards and not cater to broken systems.
-Autoconf will also wite a makefile into the top level of the build dir,
+Autoconf will also write a makefile into the top level of the build dir,
this simply acts as a wrapper to the main top level make in the source tree.
There is one big warning, you can't use both this make file and the
ones in the top level tree. Make is not able to resolve rules that