Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bob,

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:21:45AM CEST:
>
> I suspect that not many libtool developers use the VPATH build. 
> Gary's commit script does not seem to support it.

I almost exclusively do VPATH builds for the software that I test,
one build tree per host, from a common NFS tree.

> The VPATH build is quite useful for libtool, particularly given that 
> 'make clean' and 'make distclean' do not work unless the testsuite has 
> been successfully run.

Could you elaborate on that?  How can I reproduce non-working 'make
clean'?

Thanks,
Ralf