Tijnema wrote: > On 8/17/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Tijnema wrote these words on 08/16/07 17:33 CST: >> >> >>> Not with the instructions "copy-and-pasted" from the book ;) >>> >>> And btw, it will give a lot of trouble :P it will overwrite each >>> makefile, log files and build files from the previous package etc, >>> ending up with one big directory of 1000s of .o files ... >>> >> Never mind. I didn't mention that you would do it from one directory. >> You said that. I said technically you could do it from wherever you >> wanted. Your message was technically incorrect as written. Period. >> >> Now if you're trying to say "well what I really meant was ....", >> then that is a whole other thing. But we can't know what you meant, >> we only know what you typed. >> >> -- >> Randy >> >> > > No, the OP was only saying something about the cd, nothing else, so I > was just removing that command from the actions, and that would result > in building everything in the same directory where the source archives > are. (Default: $LFS/sources) > > Tijnema > One point, it would appear, is that if my working directory is an isolated subdirectory, and if it's something experimental which goes bad, then I can simply step out of the isolated working directory and nuke it from orbit.
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