Radically improve autogen.sh - cannot build trunk.

[Christian Stimming]

Derek Atkins schrieb:
> Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:
> 
>>My only problem with that on Debian is this build-within-a-build in cashutil 
>>branch. I need to be able to hook cashutil/configure onto the end 
>>of ./configure in a wrapper script that passes on the --prefix and nothing 
>>else.
> 
> You shouldn't use a build-within-a-build.  You should integrate
> the cashutil dirs into the main configure script.

... in the long run, I would say. IMHO it's fine for testing purposes to 
have a separate ./configure script in a subdirectory. OTOH if that's 
only an intermediate testing stage then it shouldn't be necessary to 
automatically hook this up to the main ./configure.

In the long run I agree with Derek: If the command line tool "cashutil" 
is supposed to be distributed together with gnucash (which is implied by 
the fact that it's in the same CVS^H^H^H SVN module), then it should be 
built by the very same top-level ./configure. No need for an extra 
build-within-a-build.

Christian