[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] Add support for autotools

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

> Autotools question: is it possible to provide the equivalent of the
> BUILDDIR variable which provides an alternative location for .o files
> and binaries, so they're not mixed with the source files. that makes
> building different architectures in the same NFS-mounted source tree
> easy, and is something I use quite a lot.
>

I believe BUILDDIR is always '.', but you can run configure from
outside the tree.  e.g.

mkdir build
cd build
../src/configure

Will cause all output files to be placed in build, while compiling
sources found in src.