25 Mar
2011
25 Mar
'11
7:03 p.m.
On 03/25/2011 01:59 PM, Serghei Amelian wrote:
[...]
OK,
Decision made, we will start re-working all of the Arch PKGBUILDs to use
out of source building...
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
> Of course I will do it however you guys
decide, but I would suggest 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 change the*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:
[...]
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.