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[Bug build/14120] build process creates autom4te.cache directory in source dir


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14120

--- Comment #6 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Allan McRae from comment #5)
> From a fresh git checkout, running "../glibc/configure --prefix=/usr" in a
> build directory leaves this directory:
> 
> $ ls ../glibc/autom4te.cache/
> output.0t  requests  traces.0t
> 
> All those files have zero size.

That's odd, configure should not touch anything in the source directory. We
should support read-only source trees with the ability to have multiple builds
going from one source tree.

I wonder what's changed... bug in autotools?

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