[Freeswitch-users] Building Freeswitch with VPATH (src and obj directories are different)?

[Michael Jerris]

I would love to see this work in tree, but i am pretty sure it has  
never worked.  I would gladly accept patches that implement this.


Mike

On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote:

> brian at freeswitch.org (Brian West) writes:
>
>> You shouldn't have to make clean usually ... doing so might break  
>> your
>> tree...
>
> Why?
>
> In any case on my mac (Leopard) neither make clean or distclean fully
> cleans up afterwards.  I would prefer to get a completely "untouched"
> source tree after doing this.  If that's supposed to work and I should
> post a bug or report the problem in more detail then I can do that.
>
>> You can usually get by with "make current" that will ensure
>> the critical things are cleaned and built correctly... every now and
>> they you'll hit a snafu but we'll usually tell you about it.
>
> ok. That's one of the reasons for liking to use VPATH builds. It's  
> also
> why many BSD system builds use this so that you can mount the source
> tree readonly (perhaps from another server) and build the binaries
> in a separate directory independently.
>
> If that's not supported then that's fine.
>
> I was trying to build the latest svn version of freeswitch (Revision:
> 15138) and this didn't build. As I'm not too familiar with compiling
> at least on the Mac I thought I'd first try to see if a VPATH build
> would work better. I'll have to try and investigate further.