On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> Why not just declare >> that building from the same directory is not support and have one >> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this >> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"? > > That's right. Is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir?
Yes. You can do configure && make && make install.
