compiling in source dir

[Philip Blundell]

>The Makefile changes apparently broken some things wrt compiling in
>the source directory (I got some reports for 2.0.93).  We have the
>choice between making this work again or simply require compiling in a
>separate directory.  Since the later is what we tell the people all
>day it seems to no no-option.
>
>What do you think?

I'd be happy to say that you have to compile in another directory.  It doesn't 
require any extra effort on the part of the person doing the build and we can 
presumably arrange for configure to emit some helpful error message if you try 
to build in the source directory.

p.