Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

[Schulman . Andrew]

>> Problem: the --srcdir switch doesn't work in many configure scripts.
Of
>> the three packages I've built, one didn't have a configure script at
>> all, and in the other two the --srcdir switch didn't work as it was
>> supposed to.  As a result the build step would fail.  I had to set up
a
>> tree of symlinks to the main source tree before I could build.
>
> That's why I provided the lndir.sh utility in the packaging/templates
> directory.

Er... packaging/templates directory of what?