libhttp

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 1 - Automake actually considers _too many_ oddball cases, which is the
> prime reason that the generated makefile is so complex that, for the
> installing user, doing almost anything else than the straight "sh
> configure ; make ; make install" is usually out of the question.  One
> such oddball case which shouldn't be considered is host systems
> without symlinks, which seems to be the only reason for the GNU
> srcdir/builddir distinction (hardwired into automake).
> 

actually, buildir exists to create a safe sandbox, this way when either the
make blows up or the testing does only generated files get hurt.  Also the
srcdir never changes, all gen'ed files go into builddir.  So you can just rm -r 
buildir and all is well.  This is the same reasoning for the use of debian/tmp
in practically every Debian rules file.