On Saturday, August 31, 2013 06:22:10 AM Martin Sustrik wrote: > Hi Luca, > > > > I am also a big fan of out of tree build, that's a lot cleaner than > > > > having all these artefacts in the sources folder. > > > > And nothing prevents you to have that with autotools. > > That's interesting. How do you do that? > > Martin It basically comes for free if you do things the way the autotools docs recommend. Just tested, and nanomsg already works with it: git clone git://github.com/250bpm/nanomsg.git mkdir nn-build cd nanomsg ./autogen.sh cd ../nn-build ../nanomsg/configure make All the results of the build process end up in nn-build, instead of nanomsg's source tree.