🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:
> 
> >> Isn't writing tar files so they untar into the current directory considered
> >> a no-no?
> 
> Tim> Probably. It's something that I've almost got into the swing of
> Tim> with decent open-source auto{make,conf}-produced Stuff, that it
> Tim> will create its own package-version/ directory, although I'm not
> Tim> aware of any unifying directive.
> 
> The GNU coding standards mandate this behavior, and a bunch of other
> things as well.  Automake automates this process to the extent
> possible.

That would explain that, then. Wahey!
I've probably got a bit of source to be compiling today... might as well
have a blast at automake and friends.

~Tim
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