"Jeroen N. Witmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I threw a switch last night that causes all the .o files to end up at
>> the root of the make (src, for instance) rather than alongside their
>> src files. After continually stumbing over the .o files in the source
>> directory, I decided this was better behavior. There are no conflicts
>> that I know of yet, and the nice part is that there's not a lot of
>> other code in src.
>>
>> Feedback on these decisions is welcome.
>>
>
> To prevent stumbling over .o files (or any generated file, for that
> matter) in the source directory, you can use a feature from the
> automake/configure tools that allows you to build outside the source
> directory. (The source distribution of gcc uses this, for instance.)
> Simply `cd builddir && /path/to/sourcedir/configure --whatever`.

Ah, yes. This is what I meant. Xerces-C should *not* enforce any
specific build dir, but instead should enable the user to set it.

Cheers,
jas.

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