Re: Issue 2418 in lilypond: Patch: Don't copy GNUmakefile and *.make from within builddir to builddir

[lilypond]

Comment #3 on issue 2418 by address@hidden: Patch: Don't copy  
GNUmakefile and *.make from within builddir to builddir
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2418

Right.  I'm stupid because I like to have
~/src/lilypond/
with everything belonging to lilypond in that directory.  I have a mental  
disability in which I like to sort things in hierarchical order.  Why  
bother with a ~/src/lilypond/build/ then?  so that I can delete it and know  
that I'm in a safe, known space.  Our build system does *not* guarantee  
that with any combination of make clean reallyclean doc-clean dist-clean  
oh-god-i-beg-you-clean.

Why do I want everybody else to use a build/ dir (whether it's a  
subdirectory of lilypond/ or not) ?  because I'm sick of GUB dying due to  
an out-of-tree build error (GUB only does out-of-tree builds) due to a  
developer only testing their makefile change with in-tree building.  GUB  
does out-of-tree builds (and in that case, really out-of-tree).  The  
easiest way to get everybody to build+test their code, while still  
supporting my mental deficiency of hierarchical directories, is to have a  
build/ dir within the source dir.