Re: Issue 2418 in lilypond: Patch: Don't copy GNUmakefile and *.make from within builddir to builddir

[lilypond]

Comment #4 on issue 2418 by address@hidden: Patch: Don't copy GNUmakefile and  
*.make from within builddir to builddir
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2418

What keeps you from putting the source into ~/lilypond/src and the build  
into ~/lilypond/build?  The point of a separate build directory is not  
clobbering the source.  And in the case of LilyPond, clobbering the source  
is unsafe since LilyPond finds a lot of things via wildcards instead of  
having them hardwired: I had builds aborting because I was continuing to  
edit without saving, and the build choked while trying to compile Emacs'  
lock files or autosave files.

My usual arrangement is to have something like /usr/local/tmp/emacs and  
/usr/local/tmp/emacs-build.