On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:28:08 +0100, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at schwinge.name> wrote: > OK -- I found the thread starting at > id:"1258897630-22282-1-git-send-email-jeff at ocjtech.us", where this has > been discussed already (as I should have expected). ;-)
OK. Then I won't go through those answers again. > Still, my point holds that (unless someone is willing to spend time on > this, of course) we shouldn't try to replicate the Autotools, but instead > keep our system as simple as it currently is, and thus just have it fail > if configured outside of the source tree. Oh, I agree that if we don't support this then we should give the user a nice error message. But I think it will actually be very easy to add support for this. (And at this point, I think the notmuch build system is something that other projects could emulate if they want. I don't think it's too crazt). -Carl -- carl.d.worth at intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110130/d2cc82ad/attachment.pgp>