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Re: Out-of-tree builds [was: Subversion 1.6.5 build buglet]

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:56:41 +0100

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 23:48 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:11 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:17:42PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> > > Got the following from one of my users. Any of the build system gurus
> > > care to look at it?
> >
> > Last I checked, out-of-tree build was broken for me in various
> > ways. E.g. I think the bindings also fail to build out-of-tree.
> > So fixing this problem alone will probably uncover additional
> > problems down the road.
> >
> > I'm not saying this should not be fixed, but rather pointing
> > out that this rabbit hole is probably deeper than it looks.
>
> I do out-of-tree builds all the time, including bindings. Apart from
> some problems with the Ruby bindings tests, the out-of-tree build works
> fine for me.

And I have no reason to think the Ruby bindings test problems I see
(some failures, a seg-fault, and then my build-and-test script often
hangs after running the bindings tests) are anything to do with
out-of-tree builds. I haven't investigated them.

- Julian

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