On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 03.41.09 WEST Neal Gompa wrote:
CMake themselves do not recommend doing in-source builds (and
they've
already warned that this will eventually stop working). Meson doesn't
even permit it. These days, Autotools is the weird exception that
mostly mandates in-source builds.
I do not intend to defend autools here but most of the projects that I know and care
allow to run configure in a different directory.
Sure I agree that it is easier to run
./configure
as compared to
make -p /some/dir;
cd /some/dir
~-/configure
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José Abílio