Maintainer mode and NLS requires srcdir = objdir?

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, like a new set of maintainer
> tools, the rules in bfd/po/Makefile for generating
> po/POTFILES.in from elf32-ia64.c elf64-ia64.c peigen.c pepigen.c
> elf32-target.h elf64-target.h and targmatch.h require that these
> files are in srcdir, while they're generated in objdir.
> 
> To avoid building in srcdir, I temporarily use
> --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-nls.
> 
> The question is, *should* maintainer builds be performed in
> srcdir?  If not, is this a bug that should be fixed?
> 

I think it is a bug. I have been fixing those which affect me.

H.J.