On Friday 25 March 2011 03:03:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/25/2011 01:59 PM, Serghei Amelian wrote:
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Of course I will do it however you guys decide, but I wouldsuggest it is far better to warn about potential problems when reusing a source tree than it is to mandate a change from the traditional build methods.
You guys think about it and let me know. I would changethe*mandate* of the out-or-source requirement to a*WARNING* so that the build can proceed, but the builder is aware that if he is not building from a clean source, then unforeseen problems can arise. Something like:
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I recommend you to try to comply with out-of-source requirement. Otherwise, you will be on your own, I will refuse to debug problems generated by in-source mode. Trinity build system is*very* complicated, with a lot generated files, which can interfere with sources in many unexpected ways.
OK,
Decision made, we will start re-working all of the Arch PKGBUILDs to use out of source building...
Or use the ones I have created. Out of source works just fine. You may want to modify them to your own tatse though.