Re: Suggestion: Short option for --no-ignore (RESEND)

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:13:24AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Pluim wrote:
[snip]
> > In that case it might be better to build in a different directory
> > than your source[1], in which case your cleanup tool becomes 'rm'.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > Footnotes:
> > [1] If your build env supports it of course ;-)
>
> And there, of course, is the issue.
>
> You cannot, for example, have autoconf/automake/libtool put their
> files into a seperate tree. Generated .c files (e.g. bison) usually
> get put in the source tree as well.
[snip]

I sometimes do:
$ cp -lR blah blah-build (-l creates hard links)
$ cd blah-build
$ ./autogen.sh
[...]
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf blah-build (-f needed if this is a Subversion wc)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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