build idea

[Zack Weinberg]

On 29 Jul 1998 18:34:14 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> While working on my new testsuite stuff I noticed that several things
>> (particularly running just-built programs, but installation would
>> benefit too) would get simpler if the extra libraries and the dynamic
>> linker were moved to top level of the build tree.  IOW, instead of
>> doing
>
>I see where this can be helpful but the generated code from a
>directory should be kept together.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.  I'd leave generated sources
and object files in the subdirectories.

zw