-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Anderson Lizardo wrote: > > >>A benefit I see on these patches is that building outside source tree >>allow us to e.g. keep the source code on a repository without fear of >>having a messed up working copy. > > > Since we are not developers, fixing a "messed up working copy" is as > simple as rm -r dir; tar -xf pkg
Ok, I see you didn't get the point... "working copy" is being used here on SCM context. If you keep the source code of your system on an repository a la FreeBSD ports or Gentoo portage, you would benefit from such "build-outside-source-dir" feature to keep your working copy (the checked out tree) clean from compiled files. Another situation (maybe common on the cross-lfs land?): You compile for multiple targets (not necessarily all of them being different archs) in parallel, with the partition where the sources are located NFS mounted. Instead of having a separate extracted tree for each target (wasting space with duplicated data), all targets compile from the same clean source tree. - -- Anderson Lizardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC0b7TkzNmn+NRHHoRAhhLAJ9JFa7Umdb1iIXDfgZSf6vo7V+y+ACgiren XJDw/d7yt1qyoa0FkHcCK/Y= =3GK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
