[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allow selection of output directory in configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:09:08PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 12:04, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Why not just cd to that directory before running configure?
> >
> > (cd $builddir; $srcdir/configure)
> 
> It's a bit difficult with automake, because $srcdir won't point to the correct 
> value afterward... it's silly I know, but that's tricky to cover on all 
> cases. And no, I'm not going to change the whole build system just for this.

This is clearly something for which you should add a workaround on your
side, not ours.  So - IMO - patch rejected.

Diego