I am the Cygwin/X (http://xfree86.cygwin.com) maintainer and I am helping someone package libsmi for inclusion in the Cygwin distribution. I came across two instances in the source code that cause the build to fail when srcdir != builddir:
1) The files in libsmi/mibs/[iana,ietf,irtf,site,tubs] are not installed since the shell script magic returns no files in the builddir (the files reside in the srcdir instead).
2) The parser.test fails because the test files and MIBS files cannot be found.
I created two patches to fix these problems, hopefully without introducing other problems, that I would like to submit to the project. I have checked the latest CVS snapshot and it does not appear that these two issues have been fixed in CVS already. However, before I submit the patches I would like to know if people are interested in this sort of thing or if I should just sit on the patches.
Thanks,
Harold