X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/93bf083d699c60f1ac40297bfa6783fb0cb800d8..b4364e7004981f9f331e4f7eba719f5c2d010815:/README.make diff --git a/README.make b/README.make index 1d87c02cb..c043f10f6 100644 --- a/README.make +++ b/README.make @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ 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 -#include "" and #include <> work as epected and more importantly +#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. It may be an absolute path or a path relative to the top level directory. -By default build/ will be used with a fall back to ./ This means -you can get all the advantages of a build directory without having to +By default build-arch/ then build/ will be used with a fall back to ./ This +means you can get all the advantages of a build directory without having to cd into it to edit your source code! The make system also performs dependency generation on the fly as the @@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner examples/ include/ apt-pkg/ - deity/ obj/ apt-pkg/ - deity/ cmndline/ [...] Only .o and .d files are placed in the obj/ subdirectory. The final compiled @@ -91,6 +89,7 @@ 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 autoconf +[Altertatively 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 @@ -110,4 +109,4 @@ 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 go to the same file through different paths and this will confuse the depends mechanism. I recommend always using the makefiles in the -source directory and exporting BUILD +source directory and exporting BUILD.