[plt-dev] in-place build directory (was re: build error with svn 14677)

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Jun 22 03:46:13 EDT 2009

On Jun 22, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> 
> If ./configure works now, that's really great, and I'll be happy to
> simplify the port accordingly...  [I'm two releases behind, now.
> Sorry about that.  Will try to find time to catch up.]

Even if it does, it's better to build from a different directory.
(And, IIUC, this applies to all autoconf-based applications.)

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