"No Such File or Directory" While in Link Path
When Compiling, I Always Place the Build in a Separate Directory. for Example: Mkdir Build Cd. /Build (Cd. .; ./Bootstrap). ./Configure Make Since I Have...
When compiling, I always place the build in a separate directory. For example:
mkdir build
cd ./build
(cd ..; ./bootstrap)
../configure
make
Since I have plenty of RAM the aim is to compile on a TMPFS.
The script gets the name of the project, uses it for the name for the directory created in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/build and finally links it.
# setup-build.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -e
my_project_name=$(basename $(pwd))
my_project_build_dir="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/build/$my_project_name"
mkdir -p $my_project_build_dir
ln -s "$my_project_build_dir" "$(pwd)/build"
The script runs without a problem. But, when I do cd ./build; ../configure it returns an error: bash: ../configure: No such file or directory. The file most certainly does exist, but Bash can't find it!
1 Answer
I altered the script to this:
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -e
my_project_src_dir="$(pwd)"
my_project_name="$(basename $(pwd))"
my_project_build_dir="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/build/$my_project_name"
mkdir -p "$my_project_build_dir"
ln -s "$my_project_build_dir" "$(pwd)/build"
cd "$my_project_build_dir"
echo "$my_project_src_dir" > "./project-src-dir.txt"
To compile I have to type cd ./build; $(cat ./project-src-dir.txt)/configure; make. This causes Bash complete to partial break, though. As in I can't TAB complete file names from $my_project_src_dir with this method, but TAB completion for arguments works fine. Ifautoconf is needed: (cd $(cat ./project-src-dir.txt); ./bootstrap). If anyone has any other ideas I would still prefer to be able to just do ../configure, although this will have to do for now.
Edit: Had to change my_project_name="$(basename '$my_project_src_dir') to my_project_name="$(basename $(pwd))" as it was taking '$my_project_src_dir' literally.
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