Re: Enabling builddir != srcdir by default in jhbuild

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:12 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

The autogen.sh tries to run:
git submodule update --init --recursive

Which might, or might not be a good idea. In any case, that won't work
if cwd isn't the git repo.

What's the proper fix for this then?

Temporarily changing into $srcdir for running autoreconf and friends, and returning to $builddir before running configure.

In case of gnome-documents, moving away from gnome-common/gnome-autogen.sh looks like a good idea as well[0]

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration