"translating in-source builds"

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:20:13PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> This work, the way it's currently being done, actually makes
> autoconfiscation *harder*.  While I agree with the goal, I'm simply
> going to simply ignore all these changes when I autoconfiscate.  Just a
> heads-up warning.

That makes sense; an autoconf-generated Makefile in the source directory
would clobber the file I just checked in.

As soon as the autoconfiscation is done, the red-herring-Makefile bit can
probably go away; I'm sure that autoconf's configure will be better than
what we currently have.


Phil

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