On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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?
Ah, yes, yet another advantage, one can also do: ./configure && make && make install :-) I do realize that you may not choose to value the feature, but that doesn't mean that everyone has the same valuation you have.
