On 03/20/2010 08:12 AM, Tim Post wrote:


With very few exceptions, however, I don't see the use of _not_ dirtying
up the source directories with objects and other output if proper
cleaning targets exist.

Traditionally, there are 2 primary reasons:

1) Multiple builds, e.g. building with different flags, options.

2) Read-only sources, e.g. sources on read-only-filesystems,
or read-only permissions to a source-tree.

Ralf


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