Re: [ECOS] Re: Build tree paths

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

John Dallaway wrote:
> Hi Tim
>
> Timothy M. Schaeffer wrote:
>
> > Say I'm generating a build tree with x.ecc.  When I generate the build
> > tree in config tool, I get 3 directories: x_install, x_mlt, x_build.
> > But if I do 
> >
> >   $ ecosconfig --config=x.ecc
> >
> > I get everything that would have been in the x_build and x_install
> > directories in the current directory.
> >
> > $ ecosconfig --config=x.ecc --prefix=x_install
> >
> > can move the install stuff, but the build stuff still gets dumped into
> > the current directory.  This makes it difficult to move between using
> > configtool and ecosconfig.
> >
> > - Why doesn't ecosconfig do what configtool does?
> >
> > - How can I make it do what configtool does?
>
> ecosconfig assumes the the current working directory is the base of the
> build tree. Try the following:
>
>   $ cd /path/to/x_build
>   $ ecosconfig --config=/path/to/x.ecc --prefix=/path/to/x_install

But (and I've asked this myself for many years now) are they different
in the first place?


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