On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 03:20:33AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi: > > Now most of our meson commands contains a '..' but a few does not. Maybe we > should remove all '..' in meson commands. Reasons: > > (1) '..' is unnecessary in meson command, with "mkdir build; cd build". > (2) Sometimes we forgot to "mkdir build; cd build" and type the meson command > in the source code directory, mistakenly. With a '..' meson will believe '..' > is the building directory and produce build.ninja and many other files in > '..'. > It's hard to clean them because BLFS source code directory (/usr/src or > $HOME/src) contains lots of tarballs. However, without '..' if we forgot to > type "mkdir build; cd build" meson would complain and exit, instead of > producing > the files. > > Any thoughts?
While I'm still maybe sober - I've seen both. The scattering of files around .. is certainly painful to clear up, and the exit if not in a build directory is useful. But I see Bruce prefers to be explicit. Dunno about that, in ./configure scripts we usually ignore options which are the defaults (compare various builds in AUR and gentoo). ĸen -- And there's a hand, my trusty fiere! and gie's a hand o' thine! And we'll tak' a right gude-willie waught, for auld lang syne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
