Improving Xorg

Miles Bader miles.bader at necel.com
Mon Jul 3 20:35:35 PDT 2006


Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> writes:
>> autotools supports srcdir != builddir, so you can do something like
>
> True, but doing so *still* creates files in srcdir.  I've had trouble in
> the past with not having truly clean source directories.

In a properly-written autotools client, this is not true if you start
with a "distribution" tree (which has configure etc already generated).
If that isn't happening, it's a bug.

-Miles
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