On 11/01/2011 04:51 PM, Mike Stump wrote: > On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >>> Why not just declare >>> that building from the same directory is not support and have one >>> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this >>> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"? >> >> That's right. Is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir? > > Yes. You can do configure && make && make install.
Huh? I do that all the time without building in-srcdir. I need a path to "configure", but that'll always be true for everyone who doesn't have "." in their PATH. Andrew.
