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Re: [PATCH] Don't infloop upon "make dist".


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't infloop upon "make dist".
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:17:20 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:13:02PM CET:
>
> in-tree VPATH build:
> cd autoconf && git pull && mkdir build && cd build \
> ~ && ../configure && make
>
> out-of-tree VPATH build:
> cd autoconf && git pull && mkdir ../build && cd ../build \
> ~ && ../autoconf/configure && make

Thanks, also to Jim.  FWIW, I've moved away from in-tree VPATH builds
because they cause an overhead for
  find $srcdir -type f | xargs grep $whatever

which is an extremely useful operation, even with git.  Of course,
it is also partly a habit from the times before git.

Cheers,
Ralf




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