Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Tim Rice wrote:
> 'make distclean' has had problems with VPATH builds because of a deficency
> in automake (at least 1.9.6). If you ran 'make distclean' before running
> the test suite some directories would be missing causing an error.
>
> This patch fixes it.

It seems that your patch did not make it into 1.10:

        rev=''; for subdir in $$list; do \
          if test "$$subdir" = "."; then :; else \
            rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
          fi; \

However, with libtool I also noticed failure of distclean when 
building in the source directory.

Bob
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