On Friday 2023-03-03 13:14, ljh wrote: >Thanks for the hint. I did not know this before. > >Found it here, autoconf manual 16.3: >> cd to the directory where you want the object files and executables to >> go and run the configure script. configure automatically checks for >> the source code in the directory that configure is in and in ... >> This is known as a VPATH build. > >$ bash ../src/autogen.sh >autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required >$ > >But `autoreconf -i` only runs in directory where configure.ac lives. It >generates a lot temporary files in the source directory.
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