On ons, 2010-07-21 at 23:06 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > This does not work as cleanly as you suppose, because some "build
> > objects" are stored in the source tree. configure being one of them.
> > So if you switch branches, configure is rerun even in a VPATH build,
> > which is undesirable.
>
> Ouch. Reading -hackers led me to thinking this had received a cleaning
> effort in the Makefiles, so that any generated file appears in the build
> directory. Sorry to learn that's not (yet?) the case.
It is, but not in the back branches.