Build and run in separate directory

[David Hampton]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 01:41 -0500, Mike Alexander wrote:

> The patch was generated against 13074.  I tried it again against 13174, 
> which is slightly post 1.9.0 and it still doesn't work right.  The two 
> patches that are relevant to building, rather than running, in a 
> separate directory are
> 
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> --- configure.in	(revision 13074)
> +++ configure.in	(working copy)
> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
>  fi
>  if test x$QOF_XML_DIR = x; then
>  	QOF_LIB_DIR='${libdir}'
> -	QOF_CFLAGS='-I${top_srcdir}/lib/libqof/qof'
> +	QOF_CFLAGS='-I${top_srcdir}/lib/libqof/qof 
> -I${top_builddir}/lib/libqof/qof'
>  	QOF_LIBS='${top_builddir}/lib/libqof/qof/libqof.la'
>  	QOF_VERSION="internal"
>  	QOF_PREFIX="internal"

I don't see any harm that could be caused by this change.

> Index: intl-scm/Makefile.am
> ===================================================================
> --- intl-scm/Makefile.am	(revision 13074)
> +++ intl-scm/Makefile.am	(working copy)
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> 
>  BUILT_SOURCES = guile-strings.c
> 
> -SCMFILES = $(shell find ${top_srcdir}/src -name test -prune -o -name 
> '*.scm' -print )
> +SCMFILES = $(shell cd ${srcdir} && find ../src -name test -prune -o 
> -name '*.scm' -print )
> 
>  # This needs to be generated in srcdir
>  guile-strings.c: $(SCMFILES)

I am unclear why this change has any effect.  What are the values of
srcdir, top_srcdir, and top_builddir in intl-scm/Makefile.

David