[Cocci] 1.0.0-rc17: Further fine-tuning for the build system?

[elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)]

>> Are you the project leader for this software?
> 
> Yes, but build systems are very tricky and entirely out of my expertise.

I can eventually help to become used to the usual software development in this
application area.


> As long as the system builds in some way, I don't see the need for
> supporting every possible exotic combination.

I hope that mistakes will be fixed in the near future.


> Notably, building the software from some directory other than the one
> in which the software is located seems completely unnecessary, as far
> as I can see.

If you want to improve the Autotools setup, you will get this feature easily.
The usefulness of "out-of-source builds / parallel build trees" might become
obvious if more configuration variants will be considered for the software
generation.


> I don't want to make changes that are inessential and that I don't understand.

Would you like adjust Automake details?

How do you think about to start corrections with the selection of corresponding
make file names?


> Any thing that one person proposes would have to be reviewed by someone else.

Would Rene perform such review tasks eventually since he was involved as a
Github committer?

Regards,
Markus