Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/8/05, Bernard Leak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been cleaning up the makefiles for some of the bits of BLFS, mostly with a view to enabling building away from the source tree. In a sense this is repairing what isn't broken, but others also may want to do it. Is there

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:35:57PM -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote: I personally don't see the benefits of compiling in a separate build dir (since make clean/distclean usually do the job) but you are welcome to submit patches to the patches project. After having been a maintainer of the

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Anderson Lizardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard Leak wrote: Dear List, I've been cleaning up the makefiles for some of the bits of BLFS, mostly with a view to enabling building away from the source tree. In a sense this is repairing what isn't broken, but others also

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Anderson Lizardo
-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

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 07/10/05 17:51 CST: After having been a maintainer of the patches repor for quite some time now, I am in vehement agreement with Jim that patches that do not appear in any book or in any hint should *not* be hosted here. Why? I did not see anything posted by Jim

Re: Separate build directories

2005-07-08 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:50:09AM +0100, Bernard Leak wrote: Dear List, Wrong list. You need to send BLFS stuff to either blfs-support or blfs-dev depending on what type of question you have. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From