On May 7, 4:24am, k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Recent spew into SRCDIR from build.sh
| Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 13:44:22 -0400 | From: chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) | Message-ID: <20180506174422.52cd817f...@rebar.astron.com> | | | Sure, but I don't see this... | | Apologies - forget it for now, and sorry for wasting your time. I suspect | that over use of -o to build.sh is the culprit (along with continuous | cvs-updates). | | Upon reflection I think I've done this before, if an objdir doesn't exist, | rather than failing, the build procedure just acts as if it wasn't meant to | be there, and uses srcdir instead. That's a pity, but I have no idea how | hard it would be to change. | | As long as that remains however, perhaps build.sh -o is just too much | of a nuisance to retain - the few extra minutes of rebuilding the objdirs | when they don't need rebuilding is less pain than having it all mess up. I understand; unfortunately it "make obj" is really time consuming... Perhaps it is faster to have make(1) do it automatically, but that's too weird and fragile. christos