[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16619] [GTK] Autotools shoud default to WebKitBuild as the build directory

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16619


sylvain.pasche at gmail.com changed:

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------- Comment #1 from sylvain.pasche at gmail.com  2008-01-04 21:59 PDT -------
Usually the build directory is the current directory you are in when invoking
configure or autogen.sh.

I looked at a few autogen.sh scripts, and they always use the current working
directory as the objdir.

However, there could be a higher level script which would create the
WebKitBuild directory, and launch autogen.sh or configure from there. But I'm
not sure this brings a lot of added value.

We could rather correct the build documentation to use this WebKitBuild
directory (once bug 16736 is fixed):

Instead of 

./autogen.sh --prefix=/path/to/install/directory 
make

There would be:

mkdir WebKitBuild
cd WebKitBuild
../autogen.sh --prefix=/path/to/install/directory 
make


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