On 16 May 2013 11:38, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > Side question: what's a common use case for a separate $BUILD_DIR? I > just use "git clean -fdx" in $SRC_DIR instead of "make clean". The need > to reconfigure (and to regenerate my tags file from scratch) is a small > price to pay for the peace of mind.
If you're in the habit of building for more than one config (eg "native x86" plus "cross-compiled for ARM" it's nice not to have to blow away the first set of object files to build the second. -- PMM
