On 23 November 2015 at 17:16, Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 23 November 2015 at 17:07, Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]> wrote: >> > - out-of-source-build only >> >> most likely a silly question... >> hm, what is the difference between an in-source / out-of-source build? >> >> i have a folder here called "/subsurface" >> i just "mkdir /subsurface/build" >> and start the build from there - so technically the build is inside >> the source folder. >> i'm guessing that's the in-source build. > > > it is, but it is an special case. > if the 'in source' dir is named 'build' it will work as expected, > if it's any other folder, then cmake will complain and ask you to build > somewhere else. > this is to remove the possibility to run cmake on the source files > generating tons of garbage there. >
so, if the out-of-source build is to allow to build subsurface anywhere, would it still be possible to build in "subsurface/build" or does it has to be strictly outside of the "subsurface/" folder? lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
