Christian, That is approximately what I am doing. I notice that when I do make distcheck the tests don't work. However make dist works and produces the tarball. John On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:12:58PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote: > Hi John > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:36 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > > The reason I am building in a different directory is > > just to keep the build clutter away from the source code. > > Couldn't you just build in a separate directory, e.g. > $ mkdir /tmp/liblouis-build && cd /tmp/liblouis-build > $ ~/src/liblouis/configure > $ make > > Thanks > Christian > -- > Christian Egli > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- My websites: http://www.godtouches.org http://www.jjb-software.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com