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authorTristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>2017-11-30 05:51:44 +0100
committerTristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>2017-11-30 05:51:44 +0100
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Add a note about configuring in a different dir.
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@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ On UNIX and MinGW systems, you also need standard utilities like sh,
cmp or make. On MSYS2 packages msys/diffutils and msys/make must be
installed.
+In these instructions, the configure script is executed in the source
+directory; but you can execute in a different directory too, like
+this:
+$ mkdir ghdl-objs
+$ cd ghdl-objs
+$ ../path/to/ghdl/configure ...
+
Building with mcode backend
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