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From: Andreas Schott <[e-mail]>
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Subject: srcdir woes
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Reply-To: [e-mail] (Andreas Schott)

> By the way, I'm afraid I still don't follow why we can't run
> config.status in kpathsea. Can't we substitute the correct values for
> whatever is wrong? I really don't want to run configure twice for people
> not using --srcdir. I made your other --srcdir changes.

You are right, it is possible if you change all references to dvipsk
into those to kpathsea, if you use the dvipsk/config.status. This
concerns the recheck-command and the srcdir-definition.

I agree with you running configure twice is not what one would like to
have, but when generating web2c, dvipsk and xdvik, I run configure
three times anyway, so a fourth time is not that much. (I have linked
the dvipsk and xdvik under web2c-6.0: see another mail)

If you want to minimize the configure-calls, you should use a top
level configure containing everything you need for web2c, dvipsk,
xdvik and kpathsea (may be checking, which of these directories
exist), and than using that config.status after some editing or
containg ifs to determine the current directory to generate all
the files in these directories.

I will try a little bit and tell you the results. There are some more
problems with the Makefiles in the subdirectories of web2c-6.0/web2c.
Here some references to the srcdir are missing. I am working on that.

Andreas.