automake --build-dir

[Erez Zadok]

Autoconf expects automake to support a --build-dir option during "make
dist".  Automake doesn't support that option.  I have the most recent CVS'ed
versions.  This has been not working for some time now.  Will this simple
problem be fixed soon?

Also, what's the difference b/t --build-dir and --output-dir supposed to be?

Thanks,
Erez.