Bill Hoffman wrote:
Orion Poplawski wrote:
What are the issues that arise? In general with RPM packaging you
are starting with a clean freshly unpacked source tree.
It really depends on the project. There are no cmake imposed
limitations on this.
What happens in practice, is if someone's project is oriented towards
in-source builds, they make mistakes in how to support out-of-source
builds. They don't test the out-of-source case enough and it breaks.
Hopefully it breaks in obvious ways, but it's possible to break in
obscure, painful ways, depending on what the project mishandles.
If someone's project is oriented towards out-of-source builds, it is
theoretically possible that they could mess up in-source builds in some
corner case. Again, due to lack of testing of that case. But in
practice, if you're handling out-of-source correctly, then in-source is
almost certain to work.
For this reason I recommend that all CMake developers orient themselves
to out-of-source builds.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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