25 Mar
2011
25 Mar
'11
3:51 p.m.
On Friday 25 March 2011 03:03:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/25/2011 01:59 PM, Serghei Amelian wrote:
Or use the ones I have created. Out of source works just fine. You may want
to modify them to your own tatse though.
[...]
OK,
Decision made, we will start re-working all of the Arch PKGBUILDs to use
out of source building... > 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.