"Warren Turkal" <wturkal(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I was wondering if there is a reason that the flex and bison and other
> generated source files end up in the source directory when doing an
> out-of-tree build. Would a patch that puts those files in the build
> trees be accepted?
Probably not, since our intention is that those files be distributed as
part of source tarballs.
Also, since they are (or should be) architecture-independent, what's the
point? Out-of-tree builds are intended to support building for multiple
architectures in parallel; but there's no reason to force independent
reconstructions of these common derived files.
regards, tom lane