On 02/24/2012 09:36 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > > I use the rule that no part of the build should write to srcdir, ever: > so it should be possible to do a successful VPATH build with a > maintainer-cleaned, read-only srcdir. > Note that automake does not honour this expectation (for example, distributed info files are generated in the srcdir). Such a policy of "always place generated but distributed files in the $(srcdir)" might become more common and even advised in the future, due to subtle breakages that might be triggered by having an outdated version of a generated file in srcdir and a "more fresh" one in the builddir; for a real-world example of such a breakage, see: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10852#11> and following messages.
> I believe this actually goes above and beyond what Automake provides. > True, especially in light of the above. Regards, Stefano
