On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:23:42PM -0800, Claudio Fontana wrote: > I am building a generic installation program for GNU > coding standards-compliant packages. > http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/
> I have a problem with current builddir != srcdir > requirement in glibc and recent versions of gcc. That requirement is not going away. Therefore, for your installation program to be truly generic, it should always and uniformly set builddir != srcdir. Doing so has the advantage that it is easy to clean up after each build; just remove the entire builddir.
