Re: building pgnus with VPATH

[Denys Duchier <Denys.Duchier@ps.uni-sb.de>]

Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:

> It would be nice if pgnus could be compiled in a separate directory
> than the sources, especially now that we can update via CVS.  
> 
> Although I'm not sure how to implement this

This request also gets my vote.  The autoconf documentation explains
the technique:

>   To support `VPATH', each `Makefile.in' should contain two lines that
> look like:
>
>     srcdir = @srcdir@
>     VPATH = @srcdir@

This is nice for several reasons: (1) you can have one source tree and
multiple build dirs for different architectures (or, in gnus case,
different emacs implementations) - this is great for updating in an
heterogenous environment, (2) you don't pollute the source tree, which
is great when you also participate in the development.  Less filling
_and_ tastes great!

Cheers,

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