Build system (was: [PATCH] Have to configure and build inside the source directory.)

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+From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>\r
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+Subject: Build system (was: [PATCH] Have to configure and build inside the\r
+       source directory.)\r
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+Hallo!\r
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+On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:58:59 +1000, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:\r
+> Rather than documenting a limitation here, why don't we do what people\r
+> actually want.\r
+\r
+Well, not a big deal for me -- I'm just used to building projects\r
+containing a configure file outside of the source tree, and the notmuch\r
+build machinery at first accepted this, but then fell over.\r
+\r
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+> What do other build systems generally do when running configure from\r
+> some other directory?\r
+\r
+What Rob said -- but: why re-invent Autoconf / Automake if it's already\r
+there?  I totally admit that the GNU Autotools have their ugly corners\r
+(and indeed a lot of these), but on the other hand they do solve some\r
+issues quite nicely.\r
+\r
+You surely had reasons to not use these tools, and that's fine with me.\r
+(And I'm not especially interested in working on build systems -- done\r
+that enough in the past.)  Have you looked at other tools before going\r
+for the straight-forward (and that is very fine!) Makefile-based\r
+solution?\r
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