Re: 2 lilypond build issues

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

>> Second, it would be extremely nice if lilypond's configure would handle
>> building in a separate build directory.  I.e.,
>
> We have a different approach to multiple builds. See INSTALL.txt; we
> tried to make the GNU way work with our build system some time ago,
> but gave up, IIRC.

It wasn't quite like that.  We tried the GNU way, ie, use automake,
libtool and support standard UNIX make.

We dropped automake and libtool, and require GNU make.  But we do
support and adhere to most other sensible GNU coding and project
standards, such as --srcdir builds.

>  Most other GNU packages use other GNU buildtools
> (like automake).  We'd rather die a screaming death than do use
> automake.

Yep, that part's quite correct :-)

Jan.

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