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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, I believe that this
requires some changes to the pgnus autoconf scripts as well as a
version of `make' that supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU
`make'.  `configure' can then look for the pgnus source code in the
directory that `configure' is in when run, and the srcdir remains
clean.

    % mkdir objdir 
    % cd objdir 
    % srcdir/configure && make