On 11/02/2011 05:11 PM, Mike Stump wrote: > 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
Of course. That's what "building in-srcdir" means. > :-) 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. Sure, but that doesn't answer the question, which was "is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir?" The answer "Yes: one can build in srcdir" doesn't quite do it! Andrew.