Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> This does not work as cleanly as you suppose, because some "build
> objects" are stored in the source tree. configure being one of them.
> So if you switch branches, configure is rerun even in a VPATH build,
> which is undesirable.
Ouch. Reading -hackers led me to thinking this had received a cleaning
effort in the Makefiles, so that any generated file appears in the build
directory. Sorry to learn that's not (yet?) the case.
Regards,
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