Problems rebuilding libffi/Makefile.in

Tue Mar 27 13:38:00 GMT 2001

On Mar 27, 2001, Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> wrote:
> It is libtool's job to
> create the obj dir?

It hasn't been, but it certainly wouldn't be too hard to arrange for
libtool to do it. I just don't think it's the right place for it.
Libtool implicitly creates directories it needs for its internal state
(.libs, etc).
Just for an example: do you think it's a compiler's job to create
/tmp/foo and /tmp/foo/bar, so that you can type gcc -c baz.c -o
/tmp/foo/bar/baz.o without having created /tmp/foo?
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