Portable mail archives?

[Simon]

Talk about a bad build system - if the build system's method is worse,
it should just use a symlink tree!  Anyway, the only build system I
know, really, is autotools, which is definitely able to do
multiplatform builds in separate directories, as long as the
maintainer knows how to configure them properly.  make distcheck is
your friend, and so is ccache..
I would say that symlink trees wouldn't be easier than the way that
configure does it (you run the configure script from an arbitrary
directory, and then it doesn't pollute the source tree).
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