On Saturday 04 September 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > > > What about instead making the names of the temporaries > > source/build/install directories used by "make distcheck" > > configurable? This will offer more flexibility, and won't > > introduce still another automake option which would make > > backward-compatibility more problematic. > > > > I was thinking of something on these lines: > > $ cat Makefile.am > > ... > > AM_DISTCHECK_BUILDDIR_NAME = _ b u i l d ## will be relative to $(distdir) > > AM_DISTCHECK_SRCDIR_NAME = . ## likewise > > AM_DISTCHECK_INSTALLDIR_NAME = i...@l1 ## likewise > > > > If you like the proposal, I might try to implement this (but > > right away). Oops! I meant "but not right away"! (Which means probably next week) .
> I do like it. Good. We'll see what I'll be able to come up with. Regards, Stefano
