[Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch configure error using --srcdir option

[Brian West]

Don't use --srcdir we don't fully support that and the howto guides do  
not mention it AT ALL.  So doing things that are not in the howto  
aren't really tested nor supported.

/b

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Robert Hadley wrote:

> Hello All
>
> On CentOS 5.3, I am trying to build Freeswitch in a different  
> directory and use the –srcdir= option.  One reason I want to do this  
> to have Debug and Release build targets from the same source.
>
> It doesn’t work, the configure errors when it gets to the first  
> library subdirectory lib/srtp and tries to configure in there.
>
> The steps I am doing are:
> Building as root
> Unzip freeswitch-1.0.4-tar.gz in /opt
> cd into /opt/freeswitch-1.0.4
> mkdir Debug
> cd Debug
> ../configure –srcdir=”..” CFLAGS=”-g –ggdb –O2”
> After several seconds of configuring I get:
> === configuring in libs/srtp (/opt/freeswitch-1.0.4/Debug/libs/srtp)
> configure: running /bin/sh ../../../libs/srtp/configure.gnu -- 
> disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local/freeswitch'  'CFLAGS=-g  
> -ggdb -O2' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=../../../libs/srtp
> ../../../libs/srtp/configure.gnu: line 2: ./configure: No such file  
> or directory
> configure: error: ../../../libs/srtp/configure.gnu failed for libs/ 
> srtp
> [root at roberth-c53 Debug]#
>
> The file that’s executing is this:
> [root at roberth-c53 srtp]# cd libs/srtp; cat ../../../libs/srtp/ 
> configure.gnu
> #! /bin/sh
> ./configure "$@" --disable-shared --with-pic
>
>
> Please tell me if I understood the –srcdir option correctly and if  
> there is a way to do build in a different directory.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert

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