This patch series aims to make the testsuite more convenient to run,
both for "upstream" development and for integration with package managers.
It changes "make check" or "tests/runtests" to do a separate
JUST_TESTING build under tests/build. This means you don't have to
reconfigure and rebuild after running the test suite.
This isn't completely straightforward. If we run a test build in a
separate directory, we are required to run *all* builds in a separate
directory. So I've set up a default build directory, "./build". I
cribbed ax_configure_builddir.m4 from the autoconf archive, and heavily
modified it so it actually works.
The macro creates a toplevel Makefile which recurses into the build
directory. Special handling is provided for "make dist", "make
dist-gzip" and "make dist-bzip2". For convenience, the tarballs created
in the build directory are moved back into the source directory.
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