Re: mod_smtpd changes

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On 12/31/05, Rian Hunter <ri...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Also I want to fix the folder hierarchy and put all the src in one
>>folder and the Makefiles in others, so it isn't so UNIX-centric.
> 
> Most of the suff you mentioned seems fine (in concept anyway), but I
> don't really see the point of this one.  Making the build system a bit
> nicer (specifically, the modules should build as part of the top level
> build, IMO) is a good goal, but both httpd and apr/apr-util put
> makefiles in with the source code, and it seems to work just fine to
> me, there's nothing "unix-centric" about it, IMO.

Note that both also support vpath builds, where the makefile, tempfiles,
generated sources etc, are all stored in the working tree, while the src
tree is (in theory) untouched.

Bill