[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] build-sys: Use build-aux directory to store autogenerated files

[João Paulo Rechi Vita]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Javier Jardón <jjardon at gnome.org> wrote:
> On 17 April 2013 19:03, João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> More of a curiosity, are there any big advantage of this approach over
>> what we have right now?
>
>
> Hi, sorry for the late replay
>
> Well simply to use the upstream tools to bootstrap the autotools
> configuration files (autoreconf) instead to use a custom script.
> Also pulseaudio already has a hard dependency on automake 1.11, so no need
> to have the logic to support older automake versions.
>

I was asking about storing the auto-generated files in a separate
directory, which this patch is about. I'm curious because it seems to
me that most projects out there store them in the project root dir,
mixed with whatever is in there, so I wanted to know whats the
rationale behind grouping them in a directory.

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