I have been unsuccessfully trying to get audacity to compile in a
directory different than the one that holds the source code. Audacity
always ends up complaining about the packages in lib-src not being
configured. For instance when I try
sanjoy@sanjoy:/tmp$ ~/new/audacity/configure
The configure script halts with the error
[…]
checking for WIDGETEXTRA… no
configure: error: lib-widget-extra is required to build audacity. A
copy is included in the audacity source distribution at
lib-src/lib-widget-extra/.
How do I rectify this? I really would like to keep my source tree
uncluttered …