Re: patch set!

[email protected] Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:48:05 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.gift.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:00:05AM +0100, David Squire wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> >make gift build in a builddir (AKA, instead of doing "./configure; make" 
> >you do "mkdir build; cd build; ../configure ; make")
> >  
> 
> Why would you do that? That is not the standard way for a GNU project to 
> be built. That one, I think, will have to be rescinded.
> 
per page 13 of my autoconf book, it is the standard. :)

the features to do it are built into autoconf and everything.

i'll forward you some links reguarding the standardness of not using SRCDIR for BUILDDIR as soon as i get to work.

Julia Longtin <[email protected]>