Joey Hess <[email protected]> (12/05/2008): > Julien Cristau wrote: > > currently dh_auto_* run configure and make from the package's > > toplevel directory. Is it possible to add an option to create a > > build directory and build there? > > I'm not sure that there's anything to be gained in adding a flag to > allow dh_auto_configure, dh_auto_build, dh_auto_clean, and > dh_auto_install to use such a build directory, vs just not using those > utilities if you need to do something tricky like that.
Well, dh_auto_configure takes care of setting a bunch of options to proper values, so that's a nice tool to use instead of writing the same --host/--build handling code again and again. Out of tree builds make it also possible to reliably clean the build directory in a single command (which can be very handy with some messy upstreams). Mraw, KiBi.
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