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[Ian Zimmerman]

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

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

Please read my post again.  The (very real) benefits you describe can
be achieved with a "symlink-directory" script.

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