On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 16:28:45 H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 07:15:37PM -0500, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Yuck. Yuck. Source should _always_ be separated from object files. > > It's incredibly messy otherwise. > > Not really. You just have .d's with their corresponding .o's sitting > side-by-side. It's a 1-to-1 correspondence. No mess.
I would consider the fact that they're in the same folder to be a mess in and of itself even without going into the other pros and cons, but there's no point in getting in an argument about it. > But either way, the point is that the source tree structure *must* be > reflected by the object files. Otherwise you break the 1-to-1 > correspondence and all sorts of nasty bugs show up. Definitely. - Jonathan M Davis
