On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:00 PM Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 19:23 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > So, builddir != srcdir breaks my workflow. There are probably other
> > examples, the above two are the most common to me.
>
> I've been thinking about this too; it's more inconvenient than I
> expected. Some other issues:
>
> * Hard to clean the build directory ('rm -rf
> ~/.cache/jhbuild/build/epiphany' replaces a simple 'git clean -xfd')
>
> * Hard to upload tarballs ('scp
> ~/.cache/jhbuild/build/epiphany/epiphany-whatever.tar.xz...)
>
> But I think this is actually mostly just a problem because we put the
> build directory in a shitty place. If we put it under the source
> directory, it wouldn't be such a problem easier.
I've been thinking about the exact same thing recently; how about a
'jhbuild jump' command that will take you from a location under srcdir to
the corresponding location under builddir and vice versa? And perhaps have
some environment variables defined as well.
Regards,
Philip C
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