gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

[Reini Urban]

Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov schrieb:
> Solution: give up on --srcdir, and provide a function that automatically
> creates a tree of symlinks in ${objdir} to the files in ${srcdir}.  I
> call this function stow(), after the stow(1) utility that does the same
> thing.  The patch is below.  This method is slower, because you have to
> wait while the script stows the source tree.  But it always succeeds,
> without relying on a working 'configure --srcdir'.  And I provide some
> visual feedback while you're waiting, so it doesn't seem so long.

hmm. most of us just build in the srcdir then.
or autoreconf --force if you like huge patches and most libtoolize anyway.