Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

[Roumen Petrov]

Hi Stefano,

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> [SNIP]
> It should still be possible, with the right hack (which is tested in the
> testsuite, and required by other packages anyway).  The baseline is: if
> you don't want your '.info' files to be distributed, then it should be
> easily possible to have them built in the builddir; but if you want them
> distributed, they will be built in the srcdir.
Sound like if user would like to distribute binaries they must be in 
source directory .
Why generated file, not required for build process, has to be places in 
source tree.

What if author(s) would like to separate process of document creation 
from binaries ?

>   The rationale to do so is
> to ensure that, in both cases, the developer's tree layout (as bootstrapped
> from a VCS checkout) will match the user's tree layout (as obtained from a
> distribution tarball).
May be I miss what is rationale to keep read-only and build-ready source 
tree.

[SNIP]

Roumen

P.S. I'm not member of all list so I just post to automake list.