On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan <j...@mediatomb.cc > wrote:
> I wonder why the authors of automake would try to restrict different and > actually valid usage scenarios? I've been using this setup for over 5 years > in different projects, I'd be really disappointed if I had to switch to a > setup that is much more inconvenient for me. > Because trying to be clever and special with build systems is a bad way to make a build system. Distributions will dislike you and it's much less likely that they'd like to package your software. If I were to find any problem with the build system of your project, I would stop looking the moment I find the silly "build" directory, and decide that it's not worth packaging at all. Don't be special, don't be clever. Use out-of-tree build if you want and behave consistently with other projects. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
