[OE-core] what is the working directory for configure/compile/install tasks?

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 01/27/2017 02:44 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>

>   i've been handed a simple example of Makefile-based source to turn
> into a recipe, and the configure/build process is absolutely
> straightforward -- top-level "configure" and "Makefile" files to be
> run -- to the point where i can simply define my own do_configure(),
> do_compile(), etc. tasks.

It's not entirely clear, but is the source GNU autotools based? Can you 
provide a link to it, so we can see what configure actually does?

Alex