Hello, * Kamaljit Singh wrote on Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:17:12AM CEST: > I maintain my build tree separate to src tree which has all the > Makefile.am's. Is it possible that all generated files (including > the Makefile.in's and the various cache) be in the build tree ?
No, sorry. The Makefile.in files and configure have to live in the source tree, as do installed files such as install-sh, config.guess, config.sub. You can turn off usage of autom4te.cache (see the Autoconf manual), but it will make autotools slower. I suppose source tree clutter could be one motivation to go for nonrecursive Makefile setups. Cheers, Ralf