Re: flex/bison output wrongly created in the source directory

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Also, since they are (or should be) architecture-independent, what's the
> point?  Out-of-tree builds are intended to support building for multiple
> architectures in parallel; but there's no reason to force independent
> reconstructions of these common derived files.

That's not the only reason for out-of-tree builds. Packagers often find it
easier to build out-of-tree since it means they can generate a clean diff
against the original source.

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