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