On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:45:27PM +0200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On 09/01/2015 09:53 PM, Daniel Schepler wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Simon Kitching <[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > I have updated the "beginner's guide to installing from source": > > > > > >I just have a minor stylistic comment on this: "Some people consider it > >better to always build from a temporary directory." If you don't agree, > >then just leave out that sentence - after all, this is your guide, not > >mine. Or, just leave it up to individual choice - the previous parts of > >the paragraph already indicate the reasons somebody might want to use a > >separate build directory in general. > > But I do I agree with you: building from a separate directory _is_ a good > idea. I'm sometimes too lazy, but I see the point. So the phrasing wasn't > meant to be negative; I was trying to indicate to the user that some people > will advise them one way, and some the other (including the LFS book which > builds in the src dir if possible). Obviously I didn't make that clear, so > I'll have a second look and see if I can find some better words to express > that.. > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Regards, Simon
It doesn't always work. For anything using autotools, it *probably* works - but not all configure scripts use autotools. For cmake projects, .. usually works, but I know of one project which had a contributed cmake option (and was considering moving to cmake) where that [ .. ] did not work when I tried it. Even for the linux kernel, where using a separate directory is intended to work, from time to time I see problem reports on the kernel list - because many people do not use them. The reality is that many people do not see the point of separate build directories unless upstream thinks its source will never scribble over itself. ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
