On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03.41.09 WEST Neal Gompa wrote: > CMake themselves do not recommend doing in-source builds (and they've > already warned that this will eventually stop working). Meson doesn't > even permit it. These days, Autotools is the weird exception that > mostly mandates in-source builds.
I do not intend to defend autools here but most of the projects that I know and care allow to run configure in a different directory. Sure I agree that it is easier to run ./configure as compared to make -p /some/dir; cd /some/dir ~-/configure -- José Abílio
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