[mercury-users] Either a documentation request or a feature request. I'm not sure which.

[Michael Richter]

In general when I build packages I like to keep my build offal
(intermediate forms, etc.) separate from my source files.  This makes
cleaning up afterwards simpler (rm -fR build) and avoids errors like
missing which files need to be deleted or, worse, deleting files that are
actually needed.

I can't figure out how to do this in Mercury.

The User's Guide recommends *against* using mmc raw and instead recommends
the use of mmc --make.  The latter, however, only works (it seems) from the
source directory itself.  I can't find any way to tell mmc --make "go to
directory X for source files" and I can't find a way to tell it "dump all
your output into directory Y".

Is there any way to do what I want to do short of doing everything by hand
in a Makefile (and making me try to figure out how to link .o files, etc.
by hand)?  If not, would this be a feature that could show up in the
compiler at any point?

-- 
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of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese
people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
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