Problems rebuilding libffi/Makefile.in

Tue Mar 27 14:49:00 GMT 2001

On 27 Mar 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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?

Not really. But it'd be nice to understand why libffi builds on one
OS and not another. My wild guess was that "mkdir -p" was used
somewhere... I could be completely wrong on that.
In this particular case it'd be best to create the object dirs in
Makefile.am, I think.
Jeff