On tis, 2009-08-11 at 12:42 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've been thinking that we could actually get rid of that build-in-srcdir
> behavior, which also occasionally puzzles vpath users with respect to gram.c
> and so on. The new behavior would be to build targets in the local directory.
> The only requirement would be that distribution tarballs be built in-tree, so
> that the stuff that is distprep'ed actually ends up in the tarball, but I
> think that should not be a problem.
I have implemented this approach now.